Christianity

The presented article determines the place of the works of Sibylle Lewitscharoff , the winner of the 2013 Büchner Prize, in the modern German literature. Her literary fame is associated with important and controversial theses on the ways of European social and cultural development. Thus, in the book 36 Righteous People (1994), S. Lewitscharoff transformed the Hebrew legend about special people to whom humanity owes its existence, and gave her own interpretation of it in relation to the history of Europe in the second half of the twentieth century.

The novel Helena (1950) is analyzed as Evelyn Waugh’s profound statement on his most significant problems: the possibility to resolve the crises of the 20th-century consciousness through Christianity and on the nature of power. Cradle Anglo-Catholics were always suspicious of Waugh, seeing him as an errant Catholic; the paper uses the work of Waugh’s biographers and interpreters to pinpoint his personal reception of Catholicism as the most sophisticated, strictly logical system, firmly grounded in historical fact. Waugh’s story of St.

The article examines the elements of Christian and pagan knowledge that are relevant for rural residents and form a close unity in the swearing of the people's cultural tradition.