Catholic Converts: Culture and Conversation During Perestroika

by Patrick N. Allitt

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From the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, an impressive group of English speaking intellectuals converted to Catholicism. Outspoken and gifted, they intended to show the fallacies of religious skeptics and place Catholicism, once again, at the center of western intellectual life. The lives of individual converts--such as John Henry Newman, G. K. Chesterton, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day--have been well documented, but Patrick Allitt...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0801486637

ISBN13:9780801486630

Release Date:April 2000

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:360 Pages

Weight:0.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Catholicism Christian Books & Bibles Christian Living Church History Churches & Church Leadership Classics History History & Criticism Movements & Periods Religion Religion & Spirituality World

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