The Catholic Culture Podcast: 113 – Can a Novelist “Create” a Saint?

August 26, 2021

in his new book How to read and write like a Catholicnovelist and editor Joshua Fullen explores approaches to Catholic literature, from St. John Henry Newman’s “Record of the Rebels” to the other end of the continuum, which expressed the beatific vision. is shown. . Topics discussed include:

• How important is beauty to fiction? Will beauty save the world?
• The importance of specificity. Carmelite vs. Ignatian Imagination View
• Newman and Augustine on the uses, limits, and dangers of indulging in sentimentality about fictional characters.
• Can acts of grace be dramatized? Can a life of holiness be fictionalized?
• Portrayals of repentance, conversion, and the lasting effects of sin in writers like Balzac and O’Connor

Joshua Fullen is the founder and editor of Wiseblood Books and is also featured in this episode, along with James Matthew Wilson, founder of the new Creative Writing MFA program at the University of St. Thomas in Houston .

Watch the discussion on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ump3CRZ6GRY

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How to read and write like a Catholic

https://tanbooks.com/level-arts/literature-and-theology/how-to-read-and-write-like-a-catholic/

MFA program
https://www.stthom.edu/Academics/School-of-Arts-and-Sciences/Division-of-Liberal-Studies/Graduate/Master-of-Fine-Arts-in-Creative-Writing/

wise blood book https://www.wisebloodbooks.com/

Listen to Newman’s sermon “The Danger of Accomplishment” on Catholic Culture Audiobook
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/st-john-henry-newman-danger-accomplishments/

Read “The Danger of Achievement”
https://www.newmanreader.org/works/parochial/volume2/sermon30.html

Previous interview with Joshua Fullen: “A World Obsessed with Flannery”
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/ep-70-reviving-catholic-literary-tradition-joshua-hren-john-emmet-clarke/

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