Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

percy-l - Re: [percy-l] Contra Gentiles?

percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion on Walker Percy

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: "RHONDA MCDONNELL" <rhonda_mcdonnell AT msn.com>
  • To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [percy-l] Contra Gentiles?
  • Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 00:46:42 +0000

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Karey, but I don't have much to add. While I think Dr. Ketner is right--the sum of the parts = contra gentiles, it also seems that he was working on it actively. If I remember correctly, reference to the project appears both in correspondence to Ketner and in his correspondence with Shelby Foote. But that doesn't mean that he had anything down on paper. I'm hoping to get to the Chapel Hill archives and see what may be revealed, if anything. What little I've picked up from reading the correspondence seems to indicate that he was planning on a Christian apologetic for the post-Christian world. In other words, a LOST IN THE COSMOS type of project (remember his working title for that one was NOVUM ORGANON, if I remember correctly). Not to beat that dead mule, but that's the primary reason I see him as reaching beyond the post-Modern vision toward some future that has yet to be glimpsed. But we'll see if my research bears that out.

Sorry Mike, not too much enlightenment from these quarters.

Rhonda


From: "Karey L. Perkins" <karey AT charter.net>
Reply-To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [percy-l] Contra Gentiles?
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:25:20 -0400

I think Rhonda would be a great person to ask about that -- she seems to
have gone far in her research in that area --

KP


----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Frentz
To: Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 10:24 PM
Subject: [percy-l] Contra Gentiles?


Does anybody happen to know how far Percy got on his Contra Gentiles,
which, if I remember correctly was a defense of the Church somehow aligned
with Peirce's principles, based on the model of Aquinas? Any record of it
after his death? Does the manuscript exist in his papers, perhaps? Just
curious if anyone in this august group knows anything about it.

(actually, the SUDDEN SILENCE has been killing me on this list.. Hoping
the big one (sobig etc..) didn't do us in. Figured this was better than a
"TEST" message :-)

Mike

--

An archive of all list discussion is available at
http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy/hypermail

Visit the Walker Percy Project at http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy
--

An archive of all list discussion is available at http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy/hypermail

Visit the Walker Percy Project at http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy

_________________________________________________________________
Enter for your chance to IM with Bon Jovi, Seal, Bow Wow, or Mary J Blige using MSN Messenger http://entertainment.msn.com/imastar





Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page