Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth-Century French Writing: 'Christianity Is Strange'

by Richard Parish

'le christianisme est etrange' - Pascal, Pensees

Pascal's assertion that 'Christianity is strange', provides the theme for Richard Parish's exploration of Catholic particularity, as it was expressed in the writing of the French seventeenth century. This was a period of quite exceptional fertility in a range of genres: apologetics, sermons, devotional manuals, catechisms, martyr tragedies, lyric poetry, polemic and spiritual autobiography. Parish...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199596662
• ISBN13: 9780199596669
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"