God's Mirror

Katherine Davies, Toby Garfitt

Gathering in one place a cohesive selection of articles that deepen our sense of the vitality and controversy within the Catholic renewal of the mid-twentieth century, God's Mirror offers historical analysis of French Catholic intellectuals. This volume highlights the work of writers, thinkers, adn creative artists who have not always drawn the attention given to such luminaries as Maritain, Mounier, and Marcel. Having organized the contributions around the typologies of renewal and engagement, editors Katherine Davies and Toby Garfitt provide a revisionist and interdisciplinary reading of the narrative of twentieth-century French Catholicism. Renewal and engagement are both manifestations of how the Catholic intellectual reflects and takes position on the relationship between the Church, personal faith, and the world, and on the increasingly problematic relationship between...