Book Club - A Canticle for Leibowitz

About the book
Join us at the Antwerp Cathedral for our next Inklings Antwerp gathering, where we'll be discussing Walter M. Miller Jr.'s post-apocalyptic masterpiece A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959).

Spanning thousands of years after a devastating nuclear war, Miller's novel follows the monks of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz as they preserve fragments of scientific knowledge through a new dark age — and witness humanity's slow, tragic march toward repeating its own destruction. Equal parts theological meditation, dark comedy, and science fiction, it's one of the rare novels that takes monastic life, the cyclical nature of history, and the moral weight of knowledge with complete seriousness.
Themes we'll likely dig into:

• Faith, reason, and the role of the Church as preserver of civilization
• The cyclical view of history vs. progress
• Suffering, euthanasia, and the dignity of the human person
• Memory, relics, and what survives the end of a world

Practical details

• 📍 Kathedraal, Groenplaats 21, Antwerp
• 📅 June 1st, 19:00
• 📖 Please read the full novel beforehand (three parts: Fiat Homo, Fiat Lux, Fiat Voluntas Tua)

Newcomers welcome — whether you're a regular at Inklings Antwerp or joining us for the first time, all that's needed is that you've read the book and want to talk about it seriously.