Williamf Lynch News Today

William F. Lynch, S.J., was a Jesuit priest and a prominent American literary theorist, theologian and philosopher. Among his nine books were Christ and Apollo, Images of Hope, and The Integrating Mind.

One of the great Catholic thinkers of 20th-century America is too often overlooked: William F. Lynch, S.J.

good Lord, deliver us. When Dante called his cantos Commedia he saw, from a posture of comic dénouement, what troubled T.S. Eliot’s tragic sense: “in spite of” the torments that tore at Christ’s very core, “we call this Friday good.” Although Dante’s utter lostness at the onset of the Inferno coincides with that unspeakably bleak Friday, by the time he summits Mount Purgatory and ascends heaven’s ladders to the highest celestial sphere, the action resolves in Easter Resurrect...