Paul Lakeland 
The Wounded Angel [EPUB ebook] 
Fiction and the Religious Imagination

Contents

Introduction

Part One: The Act of Faith and the Act of Reading

Chapter One: What Is the Act of Faith?

Chapter Two: Faith in the Modern World

Chapter Three: Faith and Fiction

Part Two: Religion and Literature

Chapter Four: The Crisis of Faith and the Promise of Grace

Chapter Five: Secular Mysticism

Chapter Six: What’s Catholicism Got to Do with It?

Part Three: The Wounded Angel

Chapter Seven: The Sacred and the Secular

Chapter Eight: The Communion of Saints

Chapter Nine: Saving Stories

Index of Names

Paul Lakeland is the Aloysius P. Kelley, SJ, Professor of Catholic Studies and founding director of the Center for Catholic Studies at Fairfield University, a Jesuit institution in Connecticut. Educated at Heythrop Pontifical Athenaeum, Oxford University, the University of London, and Vanderbilt University, he has taught at Fairfield since 1981. He is the author of nine previous books, the most recent of which is A Council That Will Never End: Lumen Gentium and the Church Today (Liturgical Press, 2013). Lakeland is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the American Theological Society, the College Theology Society, and the Catholic Theological Society of America. He blogs occasionally and reviews fiction for Commonweal, a Catholic journal of opinion.