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Christian Classics Revisited by James J. Thompson Jr.

G.K. Chesterton’s St. Francis of Assisi
October 1984St. Francis was that rarest of revolutionaries: one impelled by love rather than by hatred veneered with the catchwords of brotherhood.
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Edwin O’Connor’s The Edge of Sadness
July-August 1984Fr. Hugh Kennedy, the narrator and protagonist, lacks glamor, jets to no international colloquia on Third World grievances, and worries not a whit over his sexuality.
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Ronald Knox’s The Belief of Catholics
May 1984As Knox saw it, one believes first of all because the fundamental truths of Christianity satisfy the intellect.
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Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited
March 1984Waugh never attempted to palliate his sins or weasel out of their consequences; he believed in the fallen state of man because he clearly discerned his own bent nature.
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Jacques Ellul’s 'Prayer and Modern Man'
December 1983One prays for strength to combat the urge to declare that all is nothingness; for stamina and the will to fight evil; for the grace to live in and for Christ.
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Dorothy L. Sayers’s The Whimsical Christian
October 1983From first to last, The Whimsical Christian provides the unadulterated pleasure of watching the workings of a powerful Christian mind.
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