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Catholic Converts: Culture and Conversation During Perestroika
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Catholic Converts: Culture and Conversation During Perestroika Paperback - 2000

by Patrick Allitt


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From the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, an impressive group of English speaking intellectuals converted to Catholicism. Outspoken and gifted, they intended to show the fallacies of religious skeptics and place Catholicism, once again, at the center of western intellectual life. The lives of individual converts--such as John Henry Newman, G. K. Chesterton, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day--have been well documented, but Patrick Allitt has written the first account of converts' collective impact on Catholic intellectual life. His book is also the first to characterize the distinctive style of Catholicism they helped to create and the first to investigate the extensive contacts among Catholic convert writers in the United States and Britain.

Allitt explains how, despite the Church's dogmatic style and hierarchical structure, converts working in the areas of history, science, literature, and philosophy maintained that Catholicism was intellectually liberating. British and American converts followed each other's progress closely, visiting each other and sending work back and forth across the Atlantic.

The outcome of their labors was not what the converts had hoped. Although they influenced the Catholic Church for three or four generations, they were unable to restore it to the central place in Western intellectual life that it had enjoyed before the Reformation.

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FROM THE MID-NINETEENTH century to the mid-twentieth, a succession of English-speaking intellectuals converted to Catholicism.

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  • Title Catholic Converts: Culture and Conversation During Perestroika
  • Author Patrick Allitt
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 360
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca, Ny, U. S. A.
  • Date 2000-04-18
  • ISBN 9780801486630 / 0801486637
  • Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.8 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1460
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Catholic
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Academic
  • Dewey Decimal Code 248.242

About the author

Patrick Allitt is Cahoon Family Professor of American History at Emory University. He is the author of Catholic Intellectuals and Conservative Politics in America, 1950-1985 and Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome.

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