Catholic Converts : British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome /

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From the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, an impressive group of English-speaking intellectuals converted to Catholicism. Outspoken and gifted, they intended to show the fallacies of religious skeptics and place Catholicism, once again, at the center of Western intellectual life. Allit...

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Autor principal: Allitt, Patrick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1997.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Catholic Church.
Église catholique > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Église catholique > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Catholic Church > History > 20th century.
Catholic Church > History > 19th century.
Intellectuelen.
Bekering.
Rooms-katholieken.
Intellectuals > Religious life.
Catholic converts.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Intellectuels > États-Unis > Vie religieuse.
Convertis catholiques > États-Unis > Histoire.
Intellectuels > Grande-Bretagne > Vie religieuse.
Convertis catholiques > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Intellectuals > Religious life > United States > History.
Catholic converts > United States > History.
Intellectuals > Religious life > Great Britain > History.
Catholic converts > Great Britain > History.
United States.
Great Britain.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: intellectuals becoming Catholics
  • New pride and old prejudice
  • Loss and gain: the first English converts
  • Tractarains and transcendentalists in America
  • Infallibility and its discontents
  • America, modernism, and hell
  • The lowliness of his handmaidens: women and conversion
  • The British apologists' spiritual Aeneid
  • Revival and departure
  • Fascists, communists, Catholics, and total war
  • Transforming the past: the convert historians
  • Novels from Hadrian to Brideshead
  • The preconciliar generation: 1935-1962.

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