Choosing Community: Action, Faith, and Joy in the Works of Dorothy Sayers (Hansen Lectureship Series)

by Christine A. Colón

Publisher:

IVP Academic

, 2019

Overview

Few writers in the twentieth century were as creative and productive as Dorothy L. Sayers, the English playwright, novelist, and poet. Her justly renowned works include detective fiction featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, theological reflections, literary criticism, and her translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Among the prominent themes of her work was the need for and challenges of developing community. Sayers, who was herself an active member of various writing groups throughout her lifetime, offers her readers visions of both fractured and harmonious communities.

In this third volume in the Hansen Lectureship Series, Christine Colón explores the role of community in Sayers’s works. In particular, she considers how Sayers offers a vision of communities called to action, faith, and joy, and she reflects on how we also are called to live in community together.

The Hansen Lectureship series offers accessible and insightful reflections by Wheaton College faculty members on the transformative work of the Wade Center authors.

Key Features

• Analyzes prominent themes of Sayers’ work
• Explores the purpose of community in society
• Examines the role of action, faith, and joy in communities

Contents

• Dorothy L. Sayers’s Vision for Communities of Action Response
• Dorothy L. Sayers’s Vision for Communities of Faith Response
• Dorothy L. Sayers’s Vision for Communities of Joy Response

Praise for the Print Edition

Christine Colón has written an original and thoroughly fascinating book on Dorothy L. Sayers and community. Sayers enthusiasts will appreciate her meticulous research, but even the general reader who doesn’t know Sayers will learn something about how people can live together in harmony despite the traumas of this world.

—Suzanne Bray, professor of English, Lille Catholic University

Product Details

• Title: Choosing Community: Action, Faith, and Joy in the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers
• Author: Christine A. Colón
• Series: Hansen Lectureship Series
• Publisher: IVP
• Publication Date: 2019
• Pages: 150
• Resource Type: Collected Essays
• Topic: Literature and the Arts

About Christine A. Colón

Christine A. Colón (PhD, University of California at Davis) is professor of English at Wheaton College. She is the author of Joanna Baillie and the Art of Moral Influence and Writing for the Masses: Dorothy L. Sayers and the Victorian Literary Tradition. She is also the coauthor of Singled Out: Why Celibacy Must Be Reinvented in Today’s Church.