The Christian Imagination by Leland Ryken

Author:Leland Ryken [Ryken, Leland]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-56884-7
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2011-10-25T16:00:00+00:00

Do you love, as we do, a world complete? Oh, we know perfectly well that all our worlds are in process and none is really complete. We are referring not so much to a phenomenon as to a feeling.… Often it is literature that delivers the feeling—as when Sigrid Undset gives us what seems to be the whole of the Middle Ages, felt and understood, or when Jane Austen entrusts to our keeping the entire social world of late eighteenth-century country houses. Sometimes a mystery story, with its precise form and limitations, may fill the bill. At other times, a memoir or even a photograph may yield the experience. But always the immensity of human longing finds, however momentarily, an adequate object, and one tastes … a throbbing satisfaction that can only be called peace.

—SUSAN AND THOMAS CAHILL, “A World Complete”

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