RT Review
T1 Grace and Necessity: Reflections on Art and Love. By Rowan Williams. London: Continuum, 2005, xiii + 172 pp. £8.99 (pbk)
JF Literature and theology
VO 20
IS 3
SP 332
OP 334
A1 Jasper, David 1951-
LA English
YR 2006
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1780310641
AB Thisnew book by the Archbishop of Canterbury has its origins in the Clark Lectures, delivered in the University of Cambridge in 2005, and still bears the hallmarks of the lecture form, often reading like a meditation or stream of uttered thinking rather than a systematic, critical study. An examination of the encounter between theology, theory and artistic practice, it begins with a revisiting of the work of Jacques Maritain, and uses his revived scholasticism, particularly in his Mellon Lectures published as Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry, specifically to explore the Christian art of the artist Eric Gill, the poet and artist David Jones and the American novelist Flannery O’Connor, all working within the Roman Catholic tradition.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/litthe/frl034