Cathedrals of Bone: The Role of the Body in Contemporary Catholic Literature

by John C. Waldmeir

The metaphor of the Church as a bodyhas shaped Catholic thinking since the Second Vatican Council. Its influence on theological inquiries into Catholic nature and practice is well-known; less obvious is the way it has shaped a generation of Catholic imaginative writers. Cathedrals of Bone is the first full-length study of a cohort of Catholic authors whose art takes seriously the themes of the Council: from novelists such as Mary Gordon, Ron Hansen,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823230600
• ISBN13: 9780823230600
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"