[Juenger-list] Konversion EJs

[John.King@mondus.co.uk (John King)]

I would hazard the suggestion that the origins of Juenger's conversion
to  Catholicism can be traced back to his experiences in the First World
War, the consequent loss of the positivist/scientistic worldviews of his
father's generation and his attempts to replace that loss with a new
sense of wholeness. Juenger in general, I feel, did not deal well with a
post-modernist approach to his worldview which would have accepted
disjunctures, breaks and gaps.

That he took a religious approach is obvious on a close reading of the
war books from the mid-1920s and certain of the "political" journalism
where a desire for the certainties of Catholicism is more than evident.
Whilst I covered the war books in my thesis, I ran out of time and space
for an in-depth analysis of the religious aspects of the journalism -
might yet find the time to write it up...

BTW - the list has seen a number of discussions on Juenger and
Catholicism. The discussions which were held on the Oxford-hosted list
are achived, indexed and searchable from the www.juenger.org site -
having been processed with hypermail and htdig. I have yet to process
the archives from the pairlist, but these are available for browsing at
http://www.pairlist.net/pipermail/juenger-list/ .

Regards,

John