Sublime Virtue: 'Sainthood’ as Rendered Problematic by a Dozen Novelists - Softcover

Shanks, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1915412285 ISBN 13: 9781915412287

Publisher: Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd, 2024

Synopsis

A vibrant new approach to understanding sainthood through representations in the work of twelve novelists

• Analyses the notion of sainthood when radically purged of the spirits of propagandist church ideology
• Some of the authors explored include George Eliot, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and André Schwarz-Bart

What might a notion of ‘sainthood’ look like, radically purged of any spirit of propagandist church ideology? In Sublime Virtue, theologian Andrew Shanks demonstrates a vibrant new approach to investigating this question by analysing representations of sainthood in the work of twelve novelists – a ‘secular canon’, divested of the unhelpful trappings of institutional religious culture and tradition. The book explores virtues of sainthood as presented in the works of George Eliot, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikos Kazantzakis, Yiyun Li, Colson Whitehead, André Schwarz-Bart, Georges Bernanos, Marilynne Robinson, Morris West, Graham Greene, Shusaku Endo and Ford Madox Ford.

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About the Author

is Canon Emeritus of Manchester Cathedral, retired, having been the residentiary Canon Theologian between 2004 and 2014. He was ordained priest in 1981 and has since served various roles in the Church of England and academic teaching roles including spells at the universities of Lancaster, Leeds and Manchester. He has written a number of specific theological works, most recently Theodicy Beyond the Death of ‘God’ (Routledge, 2018).

Edition details

• Publisher: Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1915412285
• ISBN 13: 9781915412287
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320