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Home: Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Arts and Literature: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Faith and Fantasy - Steven GreydanusThe Lord of the Rings film trilogy is an extraordinary cinematic tribute to a great work of Catholic imagination. While not equalling the religious vision of the books, the films honor that vision in a way that Christian viewers can appreciate, and that for non-Christian postmoderns may represent a rare encounter with an unironic vision of good and evil. Read more... Farewell to Judgment - Roger ScrutonThe sciences aim to explain the world: they build theories that are tested through experiment, and which describe the workings of nature and the deep connections between cause and effect. Nothing like that is true of the humanities. Read more... Favorites - JANET SMITHWhile I recognize that literature is a high art form and a tremendous source of intellectual, spiritual, and moral enlightenment, I make recourse to literature largely for the purposes of therapy or entertainment. Janet Smith discusses her favorite authors. Read more... Fiction as Truth: The Fall and Purification of Pip - R. Kenton CravenMy first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things, seems to be to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. Read more... Film Review: Taking Chance - Ray NothstineLieutenant Colonel Mike Strobl began his 2004 essay “Taking Chance” by saying, “Chance Phelps was wearing his Saint Christopher medal when he was killed on Good Friday. Read more... Finding Frodo’s Faith - Joseph PearceThe Lord of the Rings is every bit as Catholic as its author. It is not only written by a Catholic, it is so Catholic that only a Catholic could have written it. Read more... Fire in Our Darkness - MICHAEL O'BRIENMichael O'Brien explores what is necessary for the Christian art of today to be true to its subject. In modern times, the lives of two religious artists, Georges Rouault (1871-1958) and William Kurelek (1927-1977), have left us markers. Read more... Five Best Books on Religion and Politics - Mary Ann GlendonThese literary works excel in their depiction of religion and politics. Read more... Flannery 0'Connor Banned - J. BottumThis summer, the racist texts of Flannery O'Connor were banned from the Catholic schools in Lafayette, Louisiana. You hardly know where to begin when faced with a proposition like that. The only Catholic admitted by mainstream secular literary critics to the canon of 20th-century American authors - now excised by Catholics. A major southern writer involved in the project of explaining southerners to themselves, now prohibited in a set of southern schools. A woman known in her own day for her anti-racism now placed on the forbidden list on the grounds of racism. Read more... Flannery O'Connor: Stalking Pride - AMY WELBORNFlannery O'Connor wrote out of a deep, thoroughly Catholic vision of life, and saw her vocation of writing as essentially telling stories to uncover "mystery through manners, grace through nature." Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 20-Nov-2009 - 09:48:48
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