Living Logos (eBook)

The Fiction of Michael D. O’Brien

Greg Maillet (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
218 Seiten
Wipf and Stock Publishers (Verlag)
979-8-3852-3710-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Can art be a "bridge to religious experience," as John Paul II argued in his Letter to the Artists (1999)? In the twenty-first century, there is no more prolific, positive response to this question than the art of Michael D. O'Brien. O'Brien's sixteen novels have been translated into fourteen languages, and his paintings grace many Catholic churches in North America. In Living Logos, the first full overview of O'Brien's extraordinary career, Greg Maillet explores nine O'Brien novels and examines the theological aesthetic that this unique author achieves. Maillet discusses not only the iconic cover paintings of O'Brien's novels, but also his most famous character, Father Elijah, and goes into greater detail on two of O'Brien's most recent novels: By the Rivers of Babylon and Letter to the Future. Like all of O'Brien's art, these recent novels have realistic settings but stretch readers' imaginations into an eternal, sacred world in which the Living God has the final word.

Autor

Greg Maillet is Professor of English at Crandall University in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. He is co-author, with David Lyle Jeffrey, of Christianity and Literature: Philosophical Foundations and Critical Practice (2011). His recent books are If Is the Only Peacemaker (2022) and Recovering Consolation (2024).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.9.2025
• Verlagsort: Eugene
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Schlagworte: 1948- • ART • Canadian • Canadian fiction • Catholic authors • Catholic Church • Catholic fiction • Catholicism • Christianity • English literature • Father Elijah • Fiction • Greg Maillet • History and Criticism • in literature • Literary criticism • Literary studies: general • Literature: history and criticism • Living Logos • Michael D (Michael David) • Modern • O’Brien • Religion • Religion and beliefs • Religion and literature • Religious aspects • Spiritual life in literature • subjects and themes • Theological Aesthetics
• ISBN-13: 979-8-3852-3710-4 / 9798385237104