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Walker Percy
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Walker Percy, the Episcopal Church & Kierkegaard’s “Apostle”
July-August 2021Kierkegaard’s concept of “the Apostle” influenced Percy’s presentation of character and theological insight in his fiction.
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The Thanatos Syndrome. By Walker Percy.
July-August 2020Is it ever appropriate to change human nature, even if ostensibly for the sake of improving the quality of life for a great many people?
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Human Alienation & Our Biotech Future
October 2007In 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.
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Pointing God’s Pilgrims Home
November 2003What we desire, says Augustine, is to be at home with the Creator, in whom we have our first and final cause.
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Conversion & the Psychology of Change
November 1999An encounter with Jesus turns out to be often paradoxical and surprising, uncomfortable in the moment yet ultimately curative.
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Attempting to Discredit Walker Percy
January/February 1997The 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."
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To Seek & to Find
July-August 1992Review of Signposts in a Strange Land by Walker Percy
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The Last Days & the Church
September 1989Predictive Scripture differs from the odd example of human prescience in that it tells us the eternal significance of events to which it alludes.
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Can Only Crazy People Tell the Truth These Days?
September 1987Review of The Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy
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After the Fall of Richmond, What?
November 1986For 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.
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Walker Percy’s Christian Existentialism
July-August 1985In every Percy novel there is a complex, religiously sensitive yet also modern and scientific sensibility at work.
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Contemplating the Foolishness of Our Age
June 1984Political activists of every stripe distrust Percy, for none of them knows exactly where to peg him.
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Something More
April 1984At 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.
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Flannery O’Connor & the “Literary Temple”
April 1984Relentlessly 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.
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