The Portal of the Mystery of Hope

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Portal of the Mystery of Hope
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Charles Peguy
SeriesContinuum Impacts
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:192
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780826479358
ClassificationsDewey:841.912
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Publication Date 1 March 2005
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Translated by David L. Schindler, Jr. In 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 in his celebrated image of the 'little girl Hope'.

Author Biography

Charles Peguy (1873-1914) was a renowned Catholic poet who ran the Socialist bookshop in Paris, edited the Cahiers de la Quinzaine and wrote numerous poems including the extraordinary 'Le Mystere de la Charite de Jeanne d'Arc'. He died in the battle of the Marne.

Reviews

"'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"