List of Latin phrases in A Canticle for Leibowitz

List of Latin phrases in A Canticle for Leibowitz

Walter M. Miller, Jr. was a Roman Catholic, and Catholicism -- especially pre-Vatican II Catholicism -- infuses "A Canticle for Leibowitz".

Fiat Homo

"Fiat homo" means "let him become man" or "let there be man". This phrase is an allusion to the Nicene creed, "homo factus est", "he became man", or to Genesis, "Fiat lux", "let there be light".Fact|date=January 2008

External links

* [http://www.loyno.edu/~gerlich/315Canticle.html Notes and annotations] to Latin phrases in A Canticle for Leibowitz
* [http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/science_fiction/canticle.html Study Guide for Walter A Miller Jr's A Canticle for Leibowitz]


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