Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Avery, Todd
• Amy Bromley
• Elsa Högberg

Titel

A Spirit in Flux: Aestheticism, Evolution and Religion

Ist Teil von

• Sentencing Orlando, 2018, p.162

Ort / Verlag

Edinburgh University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• At a pivotal moment in Paul Roche’s novelVessel of Dishonor(1962), Father Martin Haversham, a scrupulous young Catholic priest, tries to ‘blank religion out of his mind’.² Lying in bed one night in London during the Second World War, fatigued by pastoral ministry, he reaches over and haphazardly grabs the volume atop a stack of books. Woolf’sMrs Dallowayteaches him a life-altering lesson in spiritual economics: There were other realities besides the religious, and the human spirit must try to grasp them. Life was the context of religion and not the other way round. Life was the only