Topics

Walker Percy, the Episcopal Church & Kierkegaard’s “Apostle”

ON SPEAKING WITH AUTHORITY

Thomas H. Hubert

Kierkegaard’s concept of “the Apostle” influenced Percy’s presentation of character and theological insight in his fiction.

The Thanatos Syndrome. By Walker Percy.

LITERATURE MATTERS

Michael S. Rose

Is it ever appropriate to change human nature, even if ostensibly for the sake of improving the quality of life for a great many people?

Human Alienation & Our Biotech Future

Christopher Beiting

In a future dominated by a technology that doesn’t make us any happier or less alienated, we fallen beings will have to make an effort to acquire virtue and the spiritual life.

Pointing God’s Pilgrims Home

Cicero Bruce

What we desire, says Augustine, is to be at home with the Creator, in whom we have our first and final cause.

Conversion & the Psychology of Change

JESUS OF NAZARETH, MASTER PSYCHOLOGIST

Art & Larraine Bennett

An encounter with Jesus turns out to be often paradoxical and surprising, uncomfortable in the moment yet ultimately curative.

Attempting to Discredit Walker Percy

Caroline A. Langston

The author sees no problem in his claim that "the kind of philosophical closure that Walker Percy desired — and that was still available in the 1940s — is no longer viable."

Walker Percy: The Man & the Movie

A SCANDALOUS SENSE OF PARTICULARITY

Ronald Austin

To Seek & to Find

Joseph B. Hudson Jr.

Review of Signposts in a Strange Land by Walker Percy

Remembering Walker Percy

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

Abortion, Academe & the American Psychiatric Association

A REAL THANATOS SYNDROME

Patricia Wesley

The Last Days & the Church

GUEST COLUMN

John J. Reilly

Predictive Scripture differs from the odd example of human prescience in that it tells us the eternal significance of events to which it alludes.

Can Only Crazy People Tell the Truth These Days?

Thomas W. Case

Review of The Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy

Symposium on Roman Catholicism & "American Exceptionalism"

A DE-FACTO SCHISM IN THE U.S.?

With contributions by Walker Percy, Robert N. Bellah, Peter Kreeft, Robert George, Joe Holland, Christopher Derrick, Sheldon Vanauken, J.M. Cameron, James G. Hanink, L. Brent Bozell, Roger Mahony, and Henri J.M. Nouwen

After the Fall of Richmond, What?

James J. Thompson Jr.

For Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, and Walker Percy, neither tradition nor wealth-getting nor Protestantism answered the question of the meaning of existence. Their answer was in the Church.

Walker Percy’s Christian Existentialism

HARVARD DIARY

Robert Coles

In every Percy novel there is a complex, reli­giously sensitive yet also modern and scientific sen­sibility at work.

Contemplating the Foolishness of Our Age

James J. Thompson Jr.

Polit­ical activists of every stripe distrust Percy, for none of them knows exactly where to peg him.

Something More

James J. Thompson Jr.

At times Christian writers have entered that exclusive realm where profound insight into the wisdom of Christianity joins artistic merit to produce fiction of a higher order.

Flannery O’Connor & the “Literary Temple”

A CHRIST WHO DISTURBS & TERRORIZES

Bruce L. Edwards Jr.

Relentlessly exposing human pride, avarice, and weakness, O'Connor agreed with C.S. Lewis that all things that are not eternal are eternally out of date.