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CATHOLIC PARTICULARITY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH WRITING
'CHRISTIANITY IS STRANGE' |
| By: |
Richard Parish |
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Hardback |
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£120.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199596662 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199596669 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
28 July, 2011 |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
A vivid account of the belief system of early-modern France as expressed in different writing genres from sermons to martyr tragedies, lyric poetry to spiritual autobiography. Parish considers the distinctive doctrines that the heritage of the Catholic Reformation brought to light. |
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le christianisme est etrange' - Pascal, Pensees Pascal's assertion that 'Christianity is strange', provides the theme for Richard Parish's exploration of Catholic particularity, as it was expressed in the writing of the French seventeenth century. This was a period of quite exceptional fertility in a range of genres: apologetics, sermons, devotional manuals, catechisms, martyr tragedies, lyric poetry, polemic and spiritual autobiography. Parish examines a broad cross-section of this corpus with reference to the topics of apologetics, physicality, language, discernment, polemics and salvation; and draws evidence both from canonical figures (Pascal, Bossuet, Fenelon, St Francois de Sales, Madame Guyon) and from less easily-available texts. Parish aims to consider all those distinctive features that the heritage of the Catholic Reformation brought to the surface in France, and to do so in support of the numerous ways in which Christian doctrine could be understood as being strange: it is by turns contrary to expectations, paradoxical, divisive, carnal and inexpressible.These features are exploited imaginatively in the more conventional literary forms, didactically in pulpit oratory and empirically in the accounts of personal spiritual experience. In addition they are manifested polemically in debates surrounding penance, authority, inspiration and eschatology, and often push orthodoxy to its limits and beyond in the course of their articulation. This volume provides an unsettling account of a belief system to which early-modern France often unquestioningly subscribed, and shows how the element of cultural assimilation of Catholic Christianity into much of Western Europe only tenuously contains a subversive and counter-intuitive creed. The degree to which that remains the case will be for the reader to decide. |
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UK |
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Oxford University Press |
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