Hell And Other Destinations A Novelist's

The famous British novelist and playwright Piers Paul Read presents his lively, thought-provoking reflections on wide ranging spiritual topics with his usual brilliance and insight. When this best-selling writer turns his attention to a subject he holds most dear, his Catholic faith, as well as to religious and cultural issues of our times, he provokes delight and inspiration, as well as some fury and controversy. This illuminating volume presents a selection of Read's most elegant and memorable writings on subjects ranging from Christians and Jews, liberation theology, and The Da Vinci Code to sexual desire, saints and Pope Benedict XVI. Book jacket.

Piers Paul Read is a best-selling novelist, writer and playright with numeous popular books including Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, Ablaze: The Story of Chernobyl, Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography, The Templars, Monk Dawson, A Patriot in Berlin and Alice in Exile. Read is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the Council of the Society of Authors. He has also written a number of television plays, and several of his novels have been filmed for cinema and television. He lives in London.

Introduction

1

(12)

FAITH

1. Hell

13

(35)

2. Upon this Rock

48

(14)

3. The Book of God

62

(4)

4. Jesus as a Character in Fiction

66

(4)

5. A Reasonable Man

70

(3)

6. Two Travellers: St Paul and A.N. Wilson

73

(3)

7. Screwtape Returns

76

(7)

THE CHURCH

8. A Time of Trial

83

(10)

9. Modern Catholicism

93

(4)

10. The Inquisition and Dr Kiang

97

(7)

11. The Theology of Benedict XVI

104

(4)

12. The Worlock Archive

108

(4)

13. Pilgrim Cormac

112

(5)

LIBERATION THEOLOGY

14. Rich and Poor

117

(6)

15. Catechists and Commissars

123

(24)

HISTORY

16. Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code

147

(3)

17. Christians and Jews

150

(9)

18. Misunderstanding Islam

159

(4)

19. A New Look at the Crusades

163

(6)

SEX AND MARRIAGE

20. Wine and Kisses

169

(9)

21. Reconciliation

178

(5)

22. Sex, Predestination and the Working Wife

183

(8)

23. Men

191

(8)

WRITERS

24. The Catholic Novelist in a Secular Society

199

(14)

25. Eros Defended

213

(3)

26. The Quest for Graham Greene

216

(3)

27. The Riddle of Greene's Catholicism

219

(8)

SAINTS

28. Margaret Clitherow

227

(16)

29. Ignatius of Loyola

243

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Hell And Other Destinations A Novelist's Reflections on This World And the Next

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