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

["RHONDA MCDONNELL" <rhonda_mcdonnell AT msn.com>]

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" 
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> To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" 
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> 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
>
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