Elie tells the story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God: Thomas Merton
Dorothy Day
Walker Percy; and Flannery OConnor.
And it is a story about the ways we look to great books and writers to help us make sense of our experience, about the power of literature to change-to save-our lives..
It is a story of how the Catholic faith, in their vision of things, took on forms the faithful could not have anticipated.
A Pilgrimage is a journey taken in light of a story; and in The Life You Save May Be Your Own Paul Elie tells these writers\' story as a Pilgrimage from the God-obsessed literary past of Dante and Dostoevsky out into the thrilling chaos of postwar American life.
A friend came up with a name for them-the School of the Holy Ghost-and for three decades they exchanged letters, ardently read one another\'s books, and grappled with what one of them called a predicament shared in common.
Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky
Dorothy Day the founder of the Catholic Worker in New York
Flannery O\'Connor a Christ-haunted literary prodigy in Georgia
Walker Percy a doctor in New Orleans who quit medicine to write fiction and philosophy.
The Life You Save May Be Your Own is their story-a vivid and enthralling account of great writers and their power over us.
The story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God In the mid-twentieth century four American Catholics came to believe that the best way to explore the questions of religious faith was to write about them-in works that readers of all kinds could admire.
Elie tells the story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God: Thomas Merton
Dorothy Day
Walker Percy; and Flannery OConnor
