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Atheism in Literature: Graham Greene: Catholic atheist
Graham Greene
Lawrence S. Cunningham, The meaning of saints
(Harper & Row: San Francisco 1980)
In this ongoing fictional meditation on faith in an age of God's eclipse (Greene,
echoing Santayana, now describes himself as a "Catholic atheist"), there
was one novel where Greene consciously tried to depict a new kind of saint: the
unnamed priest in The power and the glory (1940). 99
re. cultural/Catholic/Jewish/atheists, see Charles Maurras, Miguel de Unamuno,
Michael Harrington, Ahad Ha-Am,Mordecai Kaplan, and
Sherwin Wine.
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