{"id":294238,"date":"2024-12-25T18:46:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T18:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/the-catholic-culture-podcast-113-can-a-novelist-create-a-saint\/"},"modified":"2024-12-25T18:46:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T18:46:14","slug":"the-catholic-culture-podcast-113-can-a-novelist-create-a-saint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/the-catholic-culture-podcast-113-can-a-novelist-create-a-saint\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catholic Culture Podcast: 113 &#8211; Can a Novelist &#8220;Create&#8221; a Saint?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"date\">Aug 26, 2021<\/p>\n<p>In his new book <em>How to Read (and Write) Like a<br \/>\nCatholic<\/em>, fiction writer and editor Joshua Hren lays out an<br \/>\napproach to Catholic literature that spans all the way from St.<br \/>\nJohn Henry Newman called \u201ca record of man in rebellion\u201d to the<br \/>\nother end of the continuum, which is a representation of the<br \/>\nBeatific Vision. Topics discussed include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How important is beauty to fiction? Will beauty save the<br \/>\nworld?<\/li>\n<li>The importance of particularity; Carmelite vs. Ignatian views<br \/>\nof imagination<\/li>\n<li>Newman and Augustine on the uses, limitations, and dangers of<br \/>\nindulging sentiments about fictional characters<\/li>\n<li>Can the action of grace be dramatized? Can the life of holiness<br \/>\nbe fictionalized?<\/li>\n<li>The depiction of repentance, conversion and the lasting effects<br \/>\nof sin in authors like Balzac and O\u2019Connor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joshua Hren is the founder and editor of Wiseblood Books as well<br \/>\nas, with James Matthew Wilson, founder of a new creative writing<br \/>\nMFA program at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, which is<br \/>\nalso discussed in the episode.<\/p>\n<p>Watch discussion on YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ump3CRZ6GRY\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ump3CRZ6GRY<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>How to Read (and Write) Like a Catholic<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/tanbooks.com\/liberal-arts\/literature-and-theology\/how-to-read-and-write-like-a-catholic\/\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/tanbooks.com\/liberal-arts\/literature-and-theology\/how-to-read-and-write-like-a-catholic\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MFA program <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stthom.edu\/Academics\/School-of-Arts-and-Sciences\/Division-of-Liberal-Studies\/Graduate\/Master-of-Fine-Arts-in-Creative-Writing\/Index.aqf?Aquifer_Source_URL=%2FMFACreativeWriting&amp;PNF_Check=1\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.stthom.edu\/Academics\/School-of-Arts-and-Sciences\/Division-of-Liberal-Studies\/Graduate\/Master-of-Fine-Arts-in-Creative-Writing\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wiseblood Books <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisebloodbooks.com\/\">https:\/\/www.wisebloodbooks.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Listen to Newman\u2019s sermon \u201cThe Danger of Accomplishments\u201d at<br \/>\nCatholic Culture Audiobooks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/st-john-henry-newman-danger-accomplishments\/\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/st-john-henry-newman-danger-accomplishments\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read \u201cThe Danger of Accomplishments\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newmanreader.org\/works\/parochial\/volume2\/sermon30.html\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.newmanreader.org\/works\/parochial\/volume2\/sermon30.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous interview with Joshua Hren, \u201cThe Flannery-Haunted<br \/>\nWorld\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/ep-70-reviving-catholic-literary-tradition-joshua-hren-john-emmet-clarke\/\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/ep-70-reviving-catholic-literary-tradition-joshua-hren-john-emmet-clarke\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow this link to join the Online Great Books VIP waiting list<br \/>\nand get 25% off your first 3 months: <a href=\"https:\/\/hj424.isrefer.com\/go\/ogbmemberships\/tmirus\/\">https:\/\/hj424.isrefer.com\/go\/ogbmemberships\/tmirus\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This podcast is a production of CatholicCulture.org. If you like<br \/>\nthe show, please consider supporting us! <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio\">http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n      var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n      if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n      js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n      js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.8&appId=834757889913083\";\n      fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicculturepodcast.libsyn.com\/113-can-a-novelist-create-a-saint-joshua-hren\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 26, 2021 In his new book How to Read (and Write) Like a Catholic, fiction writer and editor Joshua Hren lays out an approach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":294239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}