T S Eliot And Christian Tradition

Author : Benjamin G. Lockerd
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611476127
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book T. S. Eliot and Christian Tradition written by Benjamin G. Lockerd and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T. S. Eliot was raised in the Unitarian faith of his family in St. Louis but drifted away from their beliefs while studying philosophy, mysticism, and anthropology at Harvard. During a year in Paris, he became involved with a group of Catholic writers and subsequently went through a gradual conversion to Catholic Christianity. Many studies of Eliot's writings have mentioned his religious beliefs, but most have failed to give the topic due weight, and many have misunderstood or misrepresented his faith. More recently, scholars have begun exploring this dimension of Eliot's thought more carefully and fully. In this book readers will find Eliot's Anglo-Catholicism accurately defined and thoughtfully considered. Essays illuminate the all-important influence of the French Catholic writers he came to know in Paris. Prominent among them were those who wrote for or were otherwise associated with the Nouvelle Revue Française, including André Gide, Paul Claudel, and Charles-Louis Philippe. Also active in Paris at that time was the notorious Charles Maurras, whose influence on Eliot has been exaggerated by those who wished to discredit Eliot's traditionalist views. A more measured assessment of Maurras's influence has been needed and is found in several essays here. A wiser French Catholic writer, Jacques Maritain, has been largely ignored by Eliot scholars, but his influence is now given due consideration. The keynote of Eliot's cultural and political writings is his belief that religion and culture are integrally related. Several contributors examine his ideas on this subject, placing them in the context of Maritain's ideas, as well as those of the Catholic historian Christopher Dawson. Contributors take account of Eliot's intellectual relationship with such figures as John Henry Newman, Charles Williams, and the expert on church architecture, W. R. Lethaby. Eliot's engagement with other contemporaries who held a variety of Christian beliefs—including George Santayana, Paul Elmer More, C. S. Lewis, and David Jones—is also explored. This collection presents the subject of Eliot's religious beliefs in rich detail, from a number of different perspectives, giving readers the opportunity to see the topic in its complexity and fullness.

Author : Benjamin G. Lockerd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781611477139
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book T. S. Eliot and Christian Tradition written by Benjamin G. Lockerd and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eliot surprised his brother during a visit to Rome in 1926, when he fell to his knees at St. Peter's, and he surprised his Bloomsbury friends a year later when he was received into the Church of England. Many studies of Eliot's writings have mentioned his religious beliefs, but often without full consideration and understanding. This book presents the subject in rich detail, from a number of different perspectives, giving readers the opportunity to see the topic in its full complexity.

Author : Barry Spurr
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 0718840240
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Catholic in Religion written by Barry Spurr and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Barry Spurr's eagerly-awaited, definitive study of T.S. Eliot's Anglo-Catholic belief and practice shows how the poet is religion shaped his life and work for almost forty years, until his death in 1965. The author examines Eliot's formal adoption of Anglo-Catholicism, in 1927, as the culmination of his intellectual, cultural, artistic, spiritual and personal development to that point. This book presents the first detailed analysis of the unique influence that Anglo-Catholicismis doctrinal and devotional principles, and its social teaching, had on Eliot's poetry, plays, prose and personal life. An informed presentation and discussion of Anglo-Catholicism at the time of Eliot's conversion and through the subsequent decades of his Christian faith and practice. Significant new material from correspondence and diaries which sheds light on Eliot's thought, poetry and prose. This book is essential reading for all scholars and readers of T.S. Eliot and his circle; for students and devotees ofAnglo-Catholicism, and scholars of the interaction between literature and theology, especially in the twentieth century. It will also be of use to senior and Honours-level undergraduates and postgraduate research students working in the fields of Modernism and its principles and belief systems, and for students of religion, especially Western Christianity and Anglicanism."

Author : Thomas Stearns Eliot
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156177351
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianity and Culture written by Thomas Stearns Eliot and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1960 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two long essays: "The Idea of a Christian Society" on the direction of religious thought toward criticism of political and economic systems; and "Notes towards the Definition of Culture" on culture, its meaning, and the dangers threatening the legacy of the Western world.

Author : Cleo McNelly Kearns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521324397
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book T. S. Eliot and Indic Traditions written by Cleo McNelly Kearns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-06-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of Eliot's lifelong interest in Indic philosophy and religion.

Author : Naorem Khagendra Singh
Publisher : APH Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788176482387
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book T S Eliot: a Reconsideration written by Naorem Khagendra Singh and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barry Spurr
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 0718840232
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Catholic in Religion written by Barry Spurr and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barry Spurr's eagerly-awaited, definitive study of T.S. Eliot's Anglo-Catholic belief and practice shows how the poet is religion shaped his life and work for almost forty years, until his death in 1965. The author examines Eliot's formal adoption of Anglo-Catholicism, in 1927, as the culmination of his intellectual, cultural, artistic, spiritual and personal development to that point. This book presents the first detailed analysis of the unique influence that Anglo-Catholicismis doctrinal and devotional principles, and its social teaching, had on Eliot's poetry, plays, prose and personal life. An informed presentation and discussion of Anglo-Catholicism at the time of Eliot's conversion and through the subsequent decades of his Christian faith and practice. Significant new material from correspondence and diaries which sheds light on Eliot's thought, poetry and prose. This book is essential reading for all scholars and readers of T.S. Eliot and his circle; for students and devotees ofAnglo-Catholicism, and scholars of the interaction between literature and theology, especially in the twentieth century. It will also be of use to senior and Honours-level undergraduates and postgraduate research students working in the fields of Modernism and its principles and belief systems, and for students of religion, especially Western Christianity and Anglicanism.

Author : T. S. Eliot
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544358570
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Idea of a Christian Society written by T. S. Eliot and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the twentieth century’s great thinkers and writers explores what it means to incorporate Christian values into our worldly lives. Originally delivered in 1939 at Corpus Christi College, these three lectures by the renowned poet and playwright T. S. Eliot address the direction of religious thought toward criticism of political and economic systems. With sincerity and intellectual rigor, the Nobel Prize winner asks whether—and how—it is possible for Christianity to coexist with Western democracy and capitalism.

Author : Amos N. Wilder
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725233746
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Poetry and the Christian Tradition written by Amos N. Wilder and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Modern Poetry and the Christian Tradition, Wildler examines this movement in poetry in relation to the direction in which our culture is moving. He interprets the significance of modern poetry and shows its relation to the "traditional." He gives attention to the representative poets of our time (including Dylan Thomas, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Allen Tate, W. H. Auden, Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot and others); he notes the wider implications of their work and assesses from them the impulses and trends of our age. As a poet of considerable ability, as a student of literary criticism for many years, and as a teacher, Wilder is in a position to know and understand his subject. The result is a book of permanent value to all concerned with the deeper meanings of civilization and Christianity.

Author : Paul Cavill
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
ISBN 13 : 0310861357
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Christian Tradition in English Literature written by Paul Cavill and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features:• Wide chronological coverage of English literature, especially texts found in the Norton, Oxford, Blackwell and other standard anthologies• Short, punchy essays that engage with the texts, the critics, and literary and social issues• Background and survey articles• Glossaries of Bible themes, images and narratives• Annotated bibliography and questions for class discussion or personal reflection• Scholarly yet accessible, jargon-free approach – ideal for school and university students, book groups and general readersCreated for readers who may be unfamiliar with the Bible, church history or theological development, it offers an understanding of Christianity’s key concepts, themes, images and characters as they relate to English literature up to the present day.