G. Bernanos is one of those few novelists who has raised – in a catholic faith perspective – an issue of fear. His last writing Dialogues of the Carmelites is a drama about fear experienced by a Christian in face of both life and death. H. Urs von Balthasar’s theological depiction of the question contained in his book The Christian and Anxiety helps us in an interpretation of Bernanos’ literary work. Combining these two texts: literary and theological we can notice again a confirmation of the fact, that the culture finds its fulfillment and inspiration in religion and religion finds its locus thelogicus in literature.
