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Feb 26, 2011 · French poet and novelist, Victor Hugo was born on this day, 1802. He is best known in English because of his novels, Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. We have little hope that his spiritual pilgrimage led him to Christ and heaven.
Aug 21, 2019 · Hugo’s unexpected, posthumous ascendance in the Cao Dai religion was born from the best themes of his work: the dissent in his political writing, the love in his poems, and the humanism in his fiction.
Hugo's religious views changed radically over the course of his life. In his youth and under the influence of his mother, he identified as a Catholic and professed respect for Church hierarchy and authority.
But it is also a religious work, as Hugo finds his salvation in the belief that the universe is a clock, a Machine with no (discernible) Designer, in which he can fit like a wheel or cog, and find happiness and meaning—a leap to make Francis Schaeffer’s [see “The God Who Is There”] look like a small hop.
Jan 17, 2013 · Though Hugo had a less than perfectly benign view of the Catholic Church, his masterpiece is, from beginning to end, conditioned by a profoundly Christian worldview. It is most important that,...
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Hugo Grotius (/ ˈ ɡ r oʊ ʃ i ə s / GROW-shee-əss; 10 April 1583 – 28 August 1645), also known as Hugo de Groot (Dutch: [ˈɦyɣoː də ˈɣroːt]) or Huig de Groot (Dutch:), was a Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, statesman, poet and playwright.
