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To Promote, Defend, and Redeem - The Catholic Literary Revival and the Cultural Transformation of American Catholicism, 1920-1960 (Hardcover, New)
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To Promote, Defend, and Redeem - The Catholic Literary Revival and the Cultural Transformation of American Catholicism, 1920-1960 (Hardcover, New)
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The Catholic literary revival in America refers both to the impact
of the modern resurgence in European Catholic thought and letters
upon the American Church between 1920 and 1960, and to efforts by
American Catholic educational and literary leaders to induce a
similar flowering of Catholic life and culture in their own
country. Arnold Sparr examines those areas of Catholic thought and
culture that most concerned educated American Catholics, critics,
and cultural leaders between 1920 and 1960: the renaissance in
Catholic literary, theological, philosophical, and social thought;
its application to modern economic, social, and intellectual
problems; and the growth and development of the twentieth century
Catholic novel. He contends that the movement had both intellectual
and organizational aspects. It represented not only an awakening of
American Catholics to their modern intellectual and cultural
heritage, but a movement by a self-conscious American Catholic
cultural community to realize its own share of modern Catholic
thinkers, writers, and poets. Sparr maintains that American
Catholic intellectual and cultural life between 1920 and 1960 was
driven by three forces: to promote the intellectual standing of
American Catholicism, to defend the Catholic faith and its
adherents from detractors, and to redeem what was seen as a
drifting and fragmented secular culture. He divides the book into
three sections, each corresponding to separate phases of the
American Catholic literary revival. "Organization and Development,
1920-1935" treats the socio-cultural antecedents of the revival and
the self-conscious attempts of the revival's early Jesuit leaders
to build a Catholic intellectual presencein America. Part two,
"Transformation, 1935-1955," addresses the shift in Catholic
revivalist thought from the confrontational literary-philosophical
postures of the 1920s and early 1930s to more positive
understandings of Catholic faith and practice. Finally,
"Dissolution, the 1950s and After" chronicles the eclipse of the
revival, resulting from a reactivation of the Catholic
intellectualism issues, increasing concerns about professionalism
within Catholic academia, and liberal Catholic association of the
revival with so-called "ghetto culture." Parts one and two conclude
with chapters on the American Catholic novel; the search for the
Great American Catholic novel, an important element of the revival,
provides an organization framework through which to summarize and
assess major trends in the larger cultural movement. This new work
will interest scholars and students of American Catholicism, the
Catholic church in the 20th century, and cultural and religious
historians.
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