num_pages: 122
description: This book takes the most popular paradigmists of our day--St. Benedict, St. John of the Cross and Pere Teilhard de Chardinoand--and mingles their insights with Sigrid Undset's major novels, all of which are filled with paradoxes. Contents: Kristin Lavransdatter Seen through the Telescope of Teilhard de Chardin; The Master of Hestviken Illuminated by John of the Cross's Three-Fold Path; The Wild Orchid and The Burning Bush Given New Impetus through the Benedictine Rule; The Longest Years: Sigrid Undset's need to Return the Lost Child Within Her; Ida Elizabeth Achieves New Freedom through the Natural World and Motherhood; Madame Dorothea Caught in a Paradox: Shall I Choose Mysticism or Reason?; Return to the Future: A Second Paradox: Freedom in America vs. Constraint in Norway.
language: English
title: Paradigms and Paradoxes in the Life and Letters of Sigrid Undset
titlecomplete: Paradigms and Paradoxes in the Life and Letters of Sigrid Undset
publisher: University Press Of America