Your Face My Light: Maurice Zundel, the Gospel of Man

by Margaret Parry

Overview

Maurice Zundel (1897-1975), Swiss writer, priest and theologian, addresses himself not only to practising believers but to all those who, in a humanity and a Church in crisis, are seeking for a transcendent meaning or purpose to existence. Marginalised by the Catholic Church for his unorthodox, modernist views which present the individual as the source of his own freedom and becoming. Zundel's existential approach to 'being' is complemented by a profound spirituality of interiority and discovery of one's 'person' as the route to true encounter with the 'other'. The 'self' is also the 'creative source' which seeks itself through creative and artistic endeavour. These multiple facets of a theology attuned to the modern world and psyche, combined with a strong ecumenism embracing Islam encountered through long periods in Egypt and Lebanon, have ensured Zundel a huge following. Yet he is hardly known in the English-speaking world. The present book seeks to fill this void. It combines an introduction to Zundel's thinking by reference to his life and person with an analysis of selected extracts from his work translated by the author into English.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781528962377
Publisher:	Austin Macauley Publishers
Publication date:	05/04/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	134
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Margaret Parry has combined a university teaching career in French literature, language and intercultural communication with her own personal writing. Her long-time retreat in rural France (le Perche) has been a great stimulus to her writing, including the present book. She initiated there, 'Les Rencontres de la Cerisaie', largely devoted to contemporary Russian writing, including that of the novelist and French academician, Andreï Makine, and in that context translated a life of the late Russian priest and martyr, Alexander Men. A specialist on François Mauriac, on whom she has published substantial articles in both English and French, she was a founder member in 1987, following the completion of her PhD, of the Association Européenne François Mauriac, which today has members in 18 countries and has published over twenty books on a range of contemporary European writers. Her most recent publication, The War Poets and The Diary of an Ordinary Tommy, based on the war diary of her grandfather, includes some of her own poetry inspired by two pilgrimages to the Somme. The author lives in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire.