Catholic literary revival

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Catholic cultural movement literary movement

The Catholic literary revival was a 19th- and 20th-century movement in which Catholic writers produced intellectually rigorous, artistically ambitious works that explored faith, morality, and modernity within a distinctly Catholic imaginative and theological framework.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Catholic cultural movement → literary movement →
aimedTo	demonstrate compatibility of Catholicism and high art → engage modern philosophical and cultural questions → present Catholic worldview as intellectually credible → rearticulate Catholic faith in modern literary forms →
endTime	20th century →
field	cultural criticism → literature → philosophy of religion → theology →
genre	drama → essay → literary criticism → novel → poetry →
hasCharacteristic	apologetic dimension → artistically ambitious → dialogue with secular thought → engagement with modern culture → explicitly Catholic perspective → intellectually rigorous → moral seriousness → sacramental imagination → theological depth → use of traditional Christian symbolism →
hasMainTopic	Catholicism → Christian literature → faith and reason → imagination → modernity → morality → religion and literature → theology →
hasPerspective	Catholic theological framework → Christian humanism →
influenced	20th-century Catholic fiction → Catholic drama → Catholic literary criticism → Catholic poetry → Christian intellectual life in the 20th century →
influencedBy	Catholic Counter-Reformation → Enlightenment critique of religion → Romanticism → Thomism → modernist crisis in the Catholic Church →
movementType	intellectual renewal movement → religious literary revival →
religion	Catholic Church →
startTime	19th century →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Flannery O'Connor → Orestes Brownson ("American Catholic intellectual tradition") → Sigrid Undset →	movement
Catholic literary revival ("Catholic literary criticism") →	influenced