Things As They Are Art and Poetry By Étienne Gilson and Thomas

By Étienne Gilson and Thomas Langan

To tell the story of that mission and appraise its success is the work of Cuthbert Butler in his two-volume study

This volume includes the last seven chapters of that work

The Cypresses Believe in God is a work of singular standing for its harmony of historical actuality and artistic liberty

first published in 1928

Things As They Are Art and Poetry By Étienne Gilson and ThomasBy Paul Horgan In early twentieth century New York, a young boy enjoys a happy, ordinary childhood. Then, one by one, Richard sees his childhood securities crumble before the pitiless facts of a fallen world: the wanton cruelty of other children, the inconstancy of the grown ups and inscrutability of their world, the overwhelming otherness of God, and the seemingly indomitable capacity in himself for sin. Things As They Are draws its thematic power