The Return of Christian Humanism
Subtitle: Chesterton, Eliot, Tolkien, and the Romance of History
Publisher: University of Missouri Press; University of Missouri
Published: December 26, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780826217752
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Philosophy; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literature & Fiction / Literary Criticism; General; Movements - Humanism; Christian literature, English; English literature; History and criticism; Humanism in literature
Description: "Oser examines the twentieth-century literary clash between a dogmatically relativist modernism and a robust revival of Christian humanism. Reviewing English literature from Chaucer to Beckett, and the thoughts of philosophers, theologians, and modern literary critics, Oser challenges the assumption that Christian orthodoxy is incompatible with humanism, freedom, and democracy"--Provided by publisher.