num_pages: 219
description: A compelling reconstruction of the underlying beliefs informing novelist Walker Percy's writings, Ann Futrell's study revitalizes the Protestant roots of Percy's devout Catholicism and creates a new paradigm for understanding the author and his works. The core research explores the theological implications of American C. S. Pierce's semiotics on Percy's essays and fiction. Recognizing each of Percy's work as a Protestant homily concerned with spiritual emptiness and contrariness, Futrell analyzes the link between Percy's Christian Orthodoxy and the scientific philosophy and secularized Calvinism of Charles Sanders Pierce, and argues that Percy's theology rests squarely on the fundamental Peircian principle of human triadicity. Of interest to semioticians as well as theologians and literary scholars, this book provides a challenging introduction to the thought and work of the writer. 'We who are interested in Percy owe Ann Futrell a large debt.' -Jay Tolson, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C
language: English
title: The Signs of Christianity in the Work of Walker Percy
titlecomplete: The Signs of Christianity in the Work of Walker Percy
ratings_count: 1
publisher: International Scholars Publications