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John Martin Finlay (1941-1991) was born in Ozark, Alabama. Finlay received his Ph.D. in English from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 1980, the same year he converted to Roman Catholicism. Following the line of argument in the essay Mere Literature and the Lost Traveller by Allen Tate (1899-1979)fellow southerner, poet-critic, and convert to Roman CatholicismFinlay searched for, detected, and then subjected to an analysis both passionate and dispassionate certain Gnostic beliefs concerning the relationship between God (as the detached and absent Deus absconditus), the human mind, and the natural world. Finlay discovered this sometimes-hidden presence of Gnosticism not only in self-consciously modern writers such as Flaubert, Valry, Nietzsche, Freud, and Kafka but even in some of the theological writings of Cardinal John Henry Newman and in the poetry of the poet-priest Gerard Manley Hopkins. At the same time, Finlay, as he well knew, was confronting such Gnostic demons in his own life and mind. Finlay described his analysis of the Gnostic spirit in modern writers as a journey through hell.This Wiseblood Book edition of Finlays prose writings is the most comprehensive ed

Author

John Martin Finlay, John P. Doucet, Middleton, David

Publisher

Wiseblood Books

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780991583225