The Portal of the Mystery of Hope

Translated by David L. Schindler, JrIn what is one of the greatest Catholic poetic works of our century, Peguy offers a comprehensive theology ordered around the often-neglected second virtue which is incarnated inhis celebrated image of the little girl Hope .>

ISBN 0826479359   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780826479358 (What's this?)   Pages 224 Publisher Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.   Published in London Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.   Series title Continuum Impacts Format Paperback   Height (mm) 198 Publication date 07 Apr 2005   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 841.912   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly

Preface; Note; Appreciations; Translator's Preface; The Portal of the Mystery of Hope; Notes and Variations; Chronology; Bibliography

"'Peguy's deeply moving work reminds us that theology is not an intellectual option of the religious life, but a poetic drama, a working out in a pattern of words, symbols and images of the infinite complexity of God's care for His creation through every aspect of our existence, but above all in the life of the child, in its innocence and its unaffected joy.' David Jasper, University of Glasgow; 'Only a man of terrifying genius could have written this poem which is, first and last, a poem of consolation.' Noel Dermot O'Donoghue; 'A crisp translation of one of the greatest, and unjustly neglected, religious poems of the twentieth century. Peguy came to understand the value of Hope through suffering. Reading his inspired words makes that great spiritual power more concrete and richer for us.' Robert Royal, Ethics and Public Policy Center"

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