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September/October 2018 Edition of the Saint Austin Review: The Feminine Genius of Jane Austen

July/August 2018: Gerard Manley Hopkins & the Grandeur of God Sample Content from Our Latest Issue July/August 2018 Table of Contents Sample Article Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Blessed Virgin Mary - Bernadette Waterman Ward The first time the poet Gerard Manley mentions the Blessed Virgin Mary is in a letter to his father, who is dismayed that [...]

May/June 2018: American Literature & Catholic Faith Sample Content from Our Latest Issue May/June 2018 Table of Contents Sample Article Orestes Brownson on the Natural Aristocracy - Geoffrey M. Vaughan In 1813, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams engaged in a correspondence on the topic of the natural aristocracy in America. These two political enemies reconciled over the question [...]

March/April 2018: Misfits & Mystics: Flannery O'Connor and Friends Sample Content from Our Latest Issue March/April 2018 Table of Contents Sample Article Grace and the Grotesque: Redemption in the Southern Literature of Flannery O’Connor - Veronica A. Arntz To our softened, modern sensibilities, the stories of Flannery O’Connor are shocking. They are seemingly dark with despair, fraught with the [...]

January/February 2018: True Love: Passionate Reason Versus Romantic Feelings Sample Content from Our Latest Issue January/February 2018 Table of Contents Sample Article Anna Karenina: A Story of Untrue Love- Mary Leonarczyk Recently, with the 2012 movie adaptation of Anna Karenina having been released, there has been an increasing interest in Leo Tolstoy’s classic Russian novel of doomed romance. [...]

November/December 2017: Faith and Physics: Fr. LeMaître and the Big Bang Sample Content from Our Latest Issue November/December 2017 Table of Contents Sample Article Father Georges LeMaître: Introduction to a Great Priest-Cosmologist - John Beaumont In 2015 I was privileged to be able to contribute to a special issue of StAR devoted to the late and [...]

September/October 2017: The Faith & the South Sample Content from Our Latest Issue September/October 2017 2017 Table of Contents Sample Article Southern Catholics and Protestant Bias: Bishop John England’s 1839 Debate with Rev. Richard Fuller - Adam Tate During every election season, articles appear discussing confirmation bias, pointing out that most people read news stories in ways that confirm [...]

July/August 2017: The Controversial Genius of Richard Wagner Sample Content from Our Latest Issue July/August 2017 Table of Contents Sample Article Richard Wagner’s Operas of Redemption and Salvation - by Henry Zeiter Innumerable composers have written reli- gious music; to wit, Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, and Bruckner’s Masses, Te Deums, Stabat Maters, Cantatas, Oratorios, and so [...]

May/June 2017: The World's a Stage: The Drama of Faith Sample Content from Our Latest Issue May/June 2017 Table of Contents Sample Article "Reverence for the Gods in Antigone: Beyond Greek Humanism" - by Veronica A. Arntz “Give me glory! What greater glory could I win than to give my own brother decent burial? These citizens here would [...]

March/April 2017: Wounded Beauty: Suffering & the Arts Sample Content from Our Latest Issue March/April 2017 Table of Contents Sample Article "A Note on the Problem of Evil" by John Beaumont "The recent air crash in Colombia that resulted in the death of seventy-five people, including most of the Brazilian football team, Chapecoense, was a terrible tragedy. There [...]