Heroic Face of Innocence: Three Stories
By (Author) Georges Bernanos
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
T.& T.Clark Ltd
1st March 1999
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Theology
270.0922
Paperback
470
250g
Georges Bernanos was the author of the modern literary and religious classic, Diary of a Country Priest, in which he explored the Christian mystery of redemption through love. According to Hans Urs von Balthasar, Bernanos is a key figure for our times in the relationship between theology and literature. In this selection of Bernanos' most significant works Joan: Heretic and Saint, Sermon of an Agnostic on the Feast of St Thrse, and Dialogues of the Carmelites we find theological and psychological insight interwoven with a profound sense of historical drama: a masterly exploration of heroic innocence in a group of extraordinary Christian women.
(1888-1948), a Catholic novelist and outspoken social critic, was one of the greatest literary and religious figures of twentieth-century France.