Anxious Angels: A Retrospective View of Religious Existentialism

by G. Pattison

Overview

Existentialism was one of the most important influences on twentieth-century thought, especially in the period between the 1920s and early 1960s. Best known in its atheistic representatives such as Sartre, it also numbered many significant religious thinkers. Anxious Angels is a critical introduction to these religious existentialists, who are treated as a coherent group in their own right and not merely derivative of secular existentialism. The book argues that they constitute a distinctive religious voice that continues to merit attention in an era of postmodernity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333687390
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/13/1999
Series:	Retrospective View of Religious Existentialism
Edition description:	1999
Pages:	285
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

George Pattison is Dean of Chapel at King's College, Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Foreword Introduction Forerunners The Storm Bird What Russian Boys Talk About A Short Story of the Anti-Christ A Bombshell in the Playground of the Theologians Faith without Myth On the Boundary The Russian Idea Paradox and Mystery: Catholic Existentialism The Life of Dialogue Ends and Origins Bibliography Index