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  • God's Mirror: Renewal and Engagement in French Catholic Intellectual Culture in the Mid–Twentieth Century
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  • Edited by Katherine Davies, and Toby Garfitt
  • 2014
  • Published by: Fordham University Press
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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 and creative artists who have not always drawn the attention given to such luminaries as Maritain, Mounier, and Marcel.

Organized 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 intellectuals and the Magisterium. A majority of the writings are based on extensive research into published texts, with some occasional archival references, and they give critical insights into the tensions that characterized the theological and political concerns of their subjects.

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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. vii-x
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  1. Introduction
  2. Katherine Davies and Toby Garfitt
  3. pp. 1-27
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  1. 1. “Catholicisme ondoyant”: Catholic Intellectual Engagement andthe Crisis of Civilization in the 1930s
  2. Michael Kelly
  3. pp. 28-49
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  1. 2. Paul Valéry and French Catholicism: Recognizing the Context of Renewal
  2. Paul Gifford
  3. pp. 50-68
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  1. 3. A Strange Christian: Simone Weil
  2. Florence de Lussy
  3. pp. 69-87
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  1. 4. Jean Grenier and the “Spirit of Orthodoxy”
  2. Toby Garfitt
  3. pp. 88-103
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  1. 5. Charles Du Bos’s Catholicism and His Politics of Sincerity in Interwar France
  2. Katherine Davies
  3. pp. 104-128
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  1. 6. From Mystique to Théologique: Messiaen’s “ordre nouveau,” 1935–39
  2. Stephen Schloesser
  3. pp. 129-161
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  1. 7. Rethinking the Modernity of Bernanos: A Girardian Perspective
  2. Brian Sudlow
  3. pp. 162-185
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  1. 8. “Into the Catacombs of the Past”: Women and War time Trauma in the French Catholic Ressourcement Project (1939–45)
  2. Brenna Moore
  3. pp. 186-209
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  1. 9. La Relève and Its Afterlife: A Current of Catholic Renewal in Twentieth-Century Quebec
  2. Joseph Dunlop
  3. pp. 210-229
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  1. 10. Louis Massignon: A Catholic Encounter with Islam and the Middle East
  2. Anthony O’Mahony
  3. pp. 230-252
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 253-336
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 337-340
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 341-350
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