{"title":"Paul Elie","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaul Elie’s works explore profound themes at the intersection of \u003cstrong\u003efaith\u003c\/strong\u003e, creativity, and the human experience. His writing delves into the spiritual journeys of notable figures, illuminating the complexities of belief and inspiration within the fabric of \u003cem\u003ereligion and spirituality\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlending biography with thoughtful reflection, Elie offers readers an intimate look at lives shaped by both devotion and artistic endeavour. His books invite contemplation on the power of faith to influence identity and legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-life-you-save-may-be-your-own-by-paul-elie-9781250399144","title":"The Life You Save May Be Your Own","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas 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; and Walker Percy, a doctor in Louisiana who had quit medicine in order to write. Although they never met as a group, for three decades they read one another's work, corresponded, and grappled with what Percy called a \"predicament shared in common\": their desire to reconcile the claims of faith and art. A friend came up with a name for them—the School of the Holy Ghost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Life You Save May Be Your Own\u003c\/em\u003e is Paul Elie's now-classic group portrait of these four writers and the artistic and religious milieu they made their own. It is a riveting history of America's first Catholic literary moment—as the four go on pilgrimage from the God-obsessed literary past of Dante and Dostoevsky out into the chaos of postwar American life. It is a narrative of the ways faith took on forms the faithful could not have anticipated—through memoir and modernist fiction, in soup kitchens and street protests. And it is a story about the ways we look to great books and writers to help us make sense of our experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a new afterword by the author, \u003cem\u003eThe Life You Save May Be Your Own\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates the power of great writing to change—and save—our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46671344500972,"sku":"9781250399144","price":59.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/4906373482633.jpg?v=1752813246"},{"product_id":"the-last-supper-by-paul-elie-9781250437938","title":"The Last Supper","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCirca 1980, tradition and authority are in the ascendant, both in Catholicism (via Pope John Paul II) and in American civic life (through the Moral Majority and the so-called televangelists). But the public is deeply divided on issues of body and soul, devotion and desire. Enter the figures Paul Elie calls \"crypto-religious.\" Here is Leonard Cohen writing \"Hallelujah\" on his knees in a Times Square hotel room; Andy Warhol adapting Leonardo's \u003cem\u003eThe Last Supper\u003c\/em\u003e in response to the AIDS pandemic; Prince making the cross and altar into \"signs o' the times.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough Toni Morrison, spirits speak from the grave; Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen deepen the tent-revival intensity of their work; Wim Wenders offers an angel's-eye view of Berlin; U2, the Neville Brothers, and Sinéad O'Connor reckon with their Christian roots in music of mystic yearning. And Martin Scorsese overcomes fundamentalist ire to make \u003cem\u003eThe Last Temptation of Christ\u003c\/em\u003e - a struggle that anticipates Salman Rushdie's struggle with Islam in \u003cem\u003eThe Satanic Verses\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Last Supper\u003c\/em\u003e explores the bold and unexpected forms an encounter with belief can take. It traces the beginnings of our postsecular age, in which religion is at once surging and in decline. Through a propulsive narrative, it reveals the crypto-religious imagination as complex, credible, daring, and vividly recognizable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47900913926380,"sku":"9781250437938","price":61.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781250437938-the-last-supper.jpg?v=1783435755"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/paul-elie.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}