Revisiting Dante’s Promised End: Eschatological Implications of Péguy’s Jeanne d’Arc Mysteries
In three poems written on the eve of World War I, French poet Charles Péguy (1873–1914) employed the character of Jeanne d’Arc to express dissatisfaction with doctrines of judgment and damnation, exemplified for Péguy in Dantes Divine Comedy. Péguy believed Christianity’s dominant eschatological tra...
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| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2013
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2013, Volume: 62, Issue: 4, Pages: 533-563 |
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| Summary: | In three poems written on the eve of World War I, French poet Charles Péguy (1873–1914) employed the character of Jeanne d’Arc to express dissatisfaction with doctrines of judgment and damnation, exemplified for Péguy in Dantes Divine Comedy. Péguy believed Christianity’s dominant eschatological traditions promoted bourgeois individualism and apathy in the face of suffering. Péguy’s rejection of these doctrines illustrates a paradoxical strategy of using Jeanne as an advocate in this struggle against expectation of a wrathful divine judgment. With help from theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988), I explain how contemporary Christians can appropriate Péguy’s eschatological alternative. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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