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Article: A god who trembles: fear & hope in the poetry of Peguy.(Charles Peguy )
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- December 19, 2008
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Benedict XVI's encyclical Spe salvi, published a year ago, is magnificent as a theological lesson on the virtue of hope, drawing on Scripture and the church fathers to challenge the misplaced hopes of the modern world.
Nearly a century prior to Benedict's letter, Charles Peguy (1873-1914) published The Porch of the Mystery of the Second Virtue--also a meditation on hope, but this one by a poet and unlikely mystic in the middle of a harrowing personal drama. Where Benedict speaks to the intellect, Peguy speaks to the heart; where Benedict strives for clarity, Peguy hints at mystery, and does so with an irresistible tenderness.
Charles Peguy was born in ...