Beauteous Truth explores the inextricable connection between the
Good, the True and the Beautiful. It is a book that makes the
necessary connections between faith and reason and between
theology, philosophy, history and literature. It presents a
panoramic overview of Western Civilization, from Homer to Tolkien,
and highlights the importance of the great figures of the Catholic
cultural revival, including Newman, Wilde, Chesterton, Belloc, and
C.S. Lewis. Ranging from Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn, Beauteous
Truth celebrates the marriage of sanity and sanctity, which is the
fruit of the indissoluble union of fides et ratio. Early
ReviewsWhat we have here is a glorious and compendious portmanteau
of - well - of Everything, as it were. We have all long since
discovered that Joseph Pearce is a polymath. But he has outdone
himself with this volume. The subtitle is the cue: "Faith, Reason,
Literature, and Culture." And the text fulfills that promise.
Readers are in for a bracing itinerary that will take them from
Greek classicism through the Middle Ages, the Counter-Reformation,
the Romantic Movement, and into modernity. The presiding factor in
the whole thing is a robust Catholic orthodoxy. The author/guide
speaks with both authority and brio. This book qualifies for the
"Highly recommended" slot. - Thomas Howard (St. John's Seminary,
Boston, emer.) Joseph Pearce has not only written much on Catholic
letters but on the whole tradition of letters in our culture. In
this collection, he brings together his wide, amazingly wide
reflections and considerations on literature and what it really
stands for. While many paths to the highest things might be taken,
the literary path is perhaps the most pleasant and the most
engaging. Pearce not only draws us out, alerts us to authors who
speak to us, but he also opens doors to writers and themes in
Catholic and western literature that would be otherwise closed to
us without his sensitive guidance and insight. We have here the
whole of Pearce where he tells us everything about which he has
been thinking. It is a great contribution to our understanding of
reality, to the things that are." - James V. Schall, s.j.,
Georgetown University This interdisciplinary collection of essays
previously published in such journals as St. Austin Review, First
Things, and Chesterton Review provides rich food for thought on an
array of topics dealing with the intersection between beauty,
truth, culture, and Catholicism. Brief yet pithy, each essay can
stand alone, inviting wide ranging meditation on the modern
situation in light of history, literature, science, and religion.
Taken together, the essays offer an epic sweep of a culture at
crossroads urgently needing to reclaim the illumination of Christ.
This is a book to savor and return to, time and again. - Dr. Mary
Reichardt, Professor of Catholic Studies and Literature, The
University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn.
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