Twelve papers presented at the international Conference ACED held at the University of Bucharest, Romania, in June 2015, construct a case for the expression in literature of direct and indirect ways of remaining faithful to Christianity. Modern theologians and writers are placed face to face.

Ioana Zirra teaches Victorian and twentieth-century modernity and postmodernity in the English and Irish literary canon at the University of Bucharest. Madeline Potter is carrying out research at the British Cultural Studies Centre, University of Bucharest.

Contents: Ioana Zirra: Introduction: The Literary Avatars of Christian Sacramentality, Theology and Practical Life in Recent Modernity – Adrian Grafe: A Plea in Favour of Guilt – Ioana Zirra: Poetic in «Lapis Lazuli» and «A Dialogue of Self and Soul» by Yeats and in Seamus Heaney’s «A Snowshoe» (Shelf Life VI) – Anna Walczuk: Turning Away from Modern Secularisation: T. S. Eliot and His Poetic Space for a Metaphysical Quest – Roxana Paula Trandafir: C. S. Lewis and T. S. Eliot: Christianity through the Looking Glass – Joseph Kuhn: A Blood that Is Wise: Flannery O’Connor and the «Nouvelle Théologie» – Martin Potter: Does Art Imply Theology?: Henry James, Hans-Georg Gadamer, David Jones and Hans Urs von Balthasar – Madeline Potter: Moving beyond : Sacramental Transference of Being in the Arts – Maria Fengler: Aspects of Catholic Spirituality in the Poetry of George Mackay Brown – Aleksandra S?yszewska: «New wine in new bottles»: Some Aspects of the Twentieth-Century English Catholic Novel – James Christian Brown: «The Church… I suppose it really is out to stop war»: Christianity and Peace Activism in Rose Macaulay’s (1916) – Michael S. Jones: Religion as Philosophy and Art in the Work of Lucian Blaga – Ioana-Ruxandra Fruntelat?: Empirical Religion vs. Secularisation in Postcommunist Romania.