Joseph Pearce (1) (1961–)
Auteur de Tolkien: Man and Myth
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Joseph Pearce, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
Joseph Pearce has written ground-breaking biographical books on authors. Oscar Wilde, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and William Shakespeare. His books covering more than one author include Literary Converts and Catholic Literary Giants. He is the editor of the multi-volume afficher plus Ignatius Critical Editions series. afficher moins
Œuvres de Joseph Pearce
Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: A Catholic Worldview 3 exemplaires
Shakespeare's Catholicism - DVD: A Critical Analysis of the Bard's Life and Plays (2011) 3 exemplaires
Shakespeare's Catholicism (Audio CD): A Critical Analysis of the Bard's Life and Plays (2011) 2 exemplaires
Evangelizing Power of Beauty: IBT 2009 1 exemplaire
VILVOORDE BORDUURT VOORT 1 exemplaire
The Hidden Meaning of The Lord of the Rings The Theological Vision in Tolkien's Fiction 1 exemplaire
An Unexpected Journal: The Genius of G.K. Chesterton: A Reflection on His Works. (2019) 1 exemplaire
Life Changing Evangelism 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Pride and Prejudice (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen) (1813) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 80,568 exemplaires
Le portrait de Dorian Gray (1890) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 39,469 exemplaires
Saint Thomas Aquinas / Saint Francis of Assisi (2002) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 350 exemplaires
J. R. R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-Earth (2002) — Avant-propos — 264 exemplaires
J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality, and Religion (1984) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 110 exemplaires
Celebrating Middle-Earth: The Lord of the Rings As a Defense of Western Civilization (2002) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 59 exemplaires
Revisiting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth and Religion in C. S. Lewis' Chronicles (2005) — Contributeur — 52 exemplaires
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- Date de naissance
- 1961-02-12
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Barking, East London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Dagenham, Essex, England, UK
Haverhill, Suffolk, England
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Merrimack, New Hampshire, USA
Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA - Professions
- writer
editor - Organisations
- Sapientia Press
Aquinas College, Tennessee
National Front
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- Œuvres
- 58
- Aussi par
- 9
- Membres
- 2,802
- Popularité
- #9,179
- Évaluation
- 4.3
- Critiques
- 31
- ISBN
- 165
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- 7
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Thus, I snapped up a copy of Race with the Devil to find out how he came to be an extremist, serve two terms in prison for the crime of "hate speech" and how he gradually came to reject his racial hatred and embrace a life of rational love culminating in his own conversion to Catholicism.
It needs to be emphasized that, although he came from a modest socioeconomic background, Pearce was by no means an anti-intellectual meathead. His father was a fairly well-read autodidact who passed on to his son Joe a love of reading and especially English history and the glory of the British Empire. Pearce's father was a conventional nominal Anglican who also subscribed to conventional English prejudices against Catholics ("bead rattlers") especially the Irish and Jews. He taught himself German and unfortunately also taught young Joe the Horst Wessel song, the Nazi Party anthem. He respected the Nazis for their robust stand against Communism. According to Pearce his father characterized a Communist as a fellow "who demands that you be his brother or else he'll crack your skull".
When still a young child the family relocated from a relatively rural town of Haverhill to a London neighborhood to allow Joe's mother to reconnect with her relatives. Joe was a bright, but by no means model student and it didn't take long for him to be at war with his teachers. They were for the most part Marxists or at least socialists and their emphasis on British social history to the exclusion of British political and military history rubbed young Pearce the wrong way. He event took exception to the required reading of Romeo and Juliet instead of the Shakespearean histories especially Henry V.
At a very young age of sixteen Pearce drifted into the orbit of the British National Party whose core platform of a whites only Britain and rejection of the 1948 British Nationalities Act made the party the instantiation of anti-immigrant sentiment in British politics. Essentially, Pearce's career as a racist extremist lasted for a decade during which he was convicted of publishing articles in his newspaper "Bulldog" that were inclined to incite racial hatred. He survived the first prison stint fairly easily, serving four months of a six months' sentence. The second sentence was a bit tougher, and he endured his own "dark night of the soul". It is noteworthy that when he entered prison for the second term and was asked his religion he replied "Catholic".
Along the way Pearce had encountered the writings of G.K. Chesterton and was initially attracted to his writings on economics which argued for a middle way between capitalism and socialism called Distributism which was based on Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum. Over time he immersed himself in Chesterton's works and those of Hilaire Belloc and C.S. Lewis beginning with Lewis's autobiography Surprised by Joy.
There was no clear-cut break with the National Party upon his release from prison, no "on the road to Damascus" moment. Rather the reading he immersed himself in worked on him like a steady stream of water eroding a rock until he realized he no longer had anything in common with his former colleagues and friends and ultimately concluded that indeed he was or at least wanted to become a Catholic.
After breaking with the National Front, he took a 9 to 5 job and at night worked on a book on a German Catholic author, Otto Strasser, a Catholic who had been at one time a Nazi and then rejected Hitler and the party. (His brother Gregor Strasser was among the party members assassinated during the 1934 Night of the Long Knives.)
Unable to find a publisher for the Strasser book, Pearce took another leap of faith and decided to become a professional writer and began a biography of his muse, Chesterton.
Pearce emphasized that Race with the Devil is a conversion story not a biography, but it is clearly both. It is a fascinating tale of sin and redemption and an inspiration to any reader especially those who are enduring their own dark night of the soul.… (plus d'informations)