Opening book details…
Can I read The life you save may be your own : an American pilgrimage on EtoBox?
The life you save may be your own : an American pilgrimage by Elie, Paul, 1965- is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is The life you save may be your own : an American pilgrimage about?
The story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for GodIn the mid-twentieth century four American Catholics came to believe that the best way to explore the questions of religious faith was to write about them-in works that readers of all kinds could admire. The Life You Save May Be Your Own is their story-a vivid and enthralling account of great writers and their power over us.Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Dorothy Day the founder of the Catholic Worker in New York; Flannery O'Connor a'Christ-haunted'literary prodigy in Georgia; Walker Percy a doctor in New Orleans who quit medicine to write fiction and philosophy. A friend came up with a name for them-the School of the Holy Ghost-and for three decades they exchanged letters, ardently read one another's books, and grappled with what one of them called a'predicament shared in common.'A pilgrimage is a journey taken in light of a story; and in The Life You Save May Be Your Own Paul Elie tells these writers'story as a pilgrimage from the God-obsessed literary past of Dante and Dostoevsky out into the thrilling chaos of postwar American life. It is a story of how the Catholic faith,
Who reads The life you save may be your own : an American pilgrimage?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Elie, Paul, 1965-
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux : Distributed in Canada by Douglas & McIntyre
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780374256807
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.28 / 5 (27 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14