Word: jansenist
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...seems bare. His well-meaning priest remarks that he has never read Paradise Lost-whose author also, as it happens, tried to "justify the ways of God to men." Certainly Greene's priest cannot justify them; he can only insist that they are somehow just. Greene's Jansenist mind-again in Milton's words-"can make a Hell of Heaven"; his stricken world suggests his fellow Catholic Francis Thompson...
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