Richard Harries, who was bishop of Oxford for almost two decades, is the author of over two dozen books and a commentator on human rights for BBC's Radio 4. His voice, like that of C. S. Lewis, is not only familiar but perfectly attuned to a literate but nonspecialist audience. His latest book, Haunted by Christ, is a collection of essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers for whom the “pull of religion has been fundamental.” Not surprisingly, he discusses writers known for their dramatizations of the modern conflict between faith and doubt—Dostoevsky, Dickinson, Hopkins, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, William Golding, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, and C. S. Lewis. He also includes several lesser-known but excellent writers who struggled with similar issues—Stevie Smith, R. S. Thomas, Edwin Muir, George Mackay Brown, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Pullman, and Marilynne Robinson. More surprisingly, he includes Edward Thomas...
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January 01 2022
Haunted by Christ: Modern Writers and the Struggle for Faith
Harries, Richard,
Haunted by Christ: Modern Writers and the Struggle for Faith
(London
: SPCK
, 2018
), 233
pp.
Jewel Spears Brooker
Jewel Spears Brooker is the author of T. S. Eliot's Dialectical Imagination; Mastery and Escape: T. S. Eliot and the Dialectic of Modernism; and (with Joseph Bentley) Reading “The Waste Land”: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation. She has coedited two volumes of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot and is professor emerita of English literature at Eckerd College.
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (1): 146–148.
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Jewel Spears Brooker; Haunted by Christ: Modern Writers and the Struggle for Faith. Common Knowledge 1 January 2022; 28 (1): 146–148. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-9713633
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