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Review: Hope without Optimism by Terry Eagleton

Yale University Press (London 2017). Pbk. 137 pages. £10.99. Terry Eagleton has emerged as one of the forefront commentators and writers of the English-speaking world. He has written more than fifty books on literary theory,...

1 March 2018

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Review: Faith and Joy: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Priest by Fernando Cardenal SJ

Orbis Books (New York 2015). Pbk. 254 pages. £19.99. In 1985, at the height of the Thatcher government the then Solicitor General, Nicholas Fairbairn reiterated the old chestnut that the Church should leave alone what...

1 March 2016

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Christianity in Review: A History of the Faith in 50 Books by Anthony Kenny

Michael Morton reviews Christianity in Review: A History of the Faith in 50 Books by Anthony Kenny. Darton, Longman and Todd (London 2015). Hbk. 256 pages. £14.99. To review a book that itself consists of...

1 September 2015

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Review: Culture and the Death of God by Terry Eagleton

Michael Morton reviews Culture and the Death of God by Terry Eagleton. Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, and London 2014). Pbk (2015). 248 pages. £10.99. God has been through a very rough patch over...

1 June 2015

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Francis of Rome – Francis of Assisi: A New Springtime for the Church

by Leonardo Boī translated by Dinah Livingstone Orbis Books (New York 2014). Pbk. 160 pages. £11.99. Leonardo Boff is a respected theologian from Brazil the Casa Santa and a former Franciscan friar who continues to...

1 September 2014

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Faith, Reason and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate

Terry Eagleton has grown in stature over the years. From the late 1960s as the editor of Slant, a left-wing Catholic magazine brought out in the heady days after Vatican II, he became a renowned...

1 March 2010

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A Time to Speak Out and Visions of the Endgame

William Butler Yeats’ poem The Second Coming contains a much-quoted line: ‘the best lack all conviction, while the worst/are full of passionate intensity’. It was applied to the troubles in Northern Ireland, when the hard...

1 December 2009

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Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings

Many people will know that Karl Marx called religion the ‘opium of the people’. Far fewer, I would guess, will recall that he added that it was ‘the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart...

1 September 2009

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Michael Morton reviews Religion and Human Fulfilment

ISBN: 9780334041276. reviews By the late nineteenth century, as Friedrich Nietzsche disobligingly pointed out, most educated people in the West had ceased to believe in God. They had been won over to what they took...

1 June 2009

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Mary, Protestantism and Capitalism

From the annals of the Christian history of Rome there is a curious legend that on the night of the 4-5 August in the year 352 AD there was a totally unseasonable and therefore miraculous...

1 December 2008

Author: Michael Morton

Review: Hope without Optimism by Terry Eagleton

Review: Faith and Joy: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Priest by Fernando Cardenal SJ

Christianity in Review: A History of the Faith in 50 Books by Anthony Kenny

Review: Culture and the Death of God by Terry Eagleton

Francis of Rome – Francis of Assisi: A New Springtime for the Church

Faith, Reason and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate

A Time to Speak Out and Visions of the Endgame

Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings

Michael Morton reviews Religion and Human Fulfilment

Mary, Protestantism and Capitalism

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