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Faith Matters: Morris West and Brian Moore
Paperback
Biographies GeneralLiterary Figures
Publisher Price: $24.95
ISBN13: 9781923568303
Publisher: Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd
Published: May 15 2026
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Faith Matters explores the lives and works of two remarkable twentieth-century novelists-Australia's Morris West and Northern Ireland's Brian Moore, writers whose international reputations were built on gripping storytelling and profound moral inquiry. Though both were raised in strict Catholic environments, their spiritual journeys diverged dramatically.
Brian Moore abandoned his faith early and spent much of his literary career probing the uneasy terrain between belief and unbelief. Morris West, by contrast, remained a lifelong Catholic, yet one often at odds with the Church whose teachings and institutions so frequently inspired his fiction. Out of these contrasting personal convictions emerged two extraordinary bodies of work filled with ethical dilemmas, political intrigue, and the enduring human search for meaning.
Drawing on the authors' novels, biographies, and personal histories, this book examines how questions of faith, doubt, conscience, and moral responsibility shaped their writing and their lives. It also reflects on the wider role of religion in literature and the persistent human struggle to reconcile belief with experience.
Part literary study, part intellectual biography, Faith Matters is a compelling exploration of storytelling, spirituality, and the complex relationship between faith and the modern world.
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