Religion – Davood Gozli

The feeling of existential unease, of not being at home in the world, is present in James Baldwin’s novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, to a painfully concentrated degree. The novel takes that feeling of unease as its starting point and goes on to explore broader themes related to family, history, and religion. The story is set in Harlem, New York City of the 1930s, centered on a day in the life of John…

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Reflections on ‘Saint Francis of Assisi’ by G. K. Chesterton

By Davood Gozli | 19/05/2022 by Davood Gozli

… it is utterly useless to study a great thing like the Franciscan movement while remaining in the modern mood that murmurs against gloomy asceticism. The whole point about St. Francis of Assisi is that he certainly was ascetical and he certainly was not gloomy. Chesterton’s book Saint Francis of Assisi was published in 1923, about two decades after the publication of Heretics (1905) and a decade before the publication of Saint Thomas Aquinas: The…

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James Baldwin’s “Go Tell It on the Mountain”

Reflections on ‘Saint Francis of Assisi’ by G. K. Chesterton