Norman Mailer, requiescat in pacem
November 11, 2007 at 1:21 pm | In books, theology | Leave a Comment
Paula, posting in Fr. Kendall Harmon’s blog, titusonenine: http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/7513/#comments
“Here are comments by interviewer Christopher Lydon about Mailer: ‘ . . . fundamentally The Castle in the Forest seems to me an exercise in theology, a confirmation, finally, that there’s a believer inside Norman Mailer—original, but recognizably sprung from the Jewish and Christian traditions, and almost systematic.’ And this: ‘ . . . his edge in the competitive struggle with the secular storytellers of his generation is precisely this taste for metaphysics and theology.’ http://www.radioopensource.org/norman-mailers-long-view/
Guess I’ll have to go read The Castle in the Forest.
The NYTimes obit: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/books/11mailer.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
“A few rudimentary ideas taken from someone else”
October 20, 2007 at 6:01 pm | In books, faith | Leave a Comment
An Infinity of Little Hours Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World’s Most Austere Monastic Order, by Nancy Maguire (Public Affairs: 2006)
“‘Of course not! One sets out in life with a few rudimentary ideas taken from someone else; the whole beauty of it is the learning, the entering into the mystery that envelops us, a process that does not and never will end. In this life we experience this mystery in the darkness of faith, yet for me it is an inexhaustible reality into which each day I try to enter, letting go of every image and concept in a naked entering into God as he is in himself. The immense love that God is has humbled me. I believe in God, I hope in and for God. I want to love God and all that is in him. Each day I start again to live these basic truths of the penny cathechism. That’s it. I am profoundly grateful for the opportunity my life as a pretty poor monk allows me to do so.’ After forty-five years in the Charterhouse, Dom Leo is ‘as thirsty now, thirstier, as I was on setting out’” (p. 230).
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