''Slant'' was a

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magazine associated with the

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and the

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during the 1960s, and of the group associated with this magazine. It sought to combine Catholic belief with

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and was influenced by the thinking of

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and

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. Influential members included

Terry Eagleton Terence Francis Eagleton (born 22 February 1943) is an English literary theorist, critic, and public intellectual. He is currently Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University. Eagleton has published over forty book ...

and

Herbert McCabe Herbert John Ignatius McCabe (2 August 192628 June 2001) was a Dominican priest, theologian and philosopher. Life Herbert McCabe was born in Middlesbrough in the North Riding of Yorkshire. He studied chemistry at Manchester University, bu ...

Denys Turner Denys Alan Turner (born 5 August 1942) is a British-born American philosopher and theologian. He is Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology emeritus at Yale University having been appointed in 2005, previously having been Norris ...

is a significant theologian influenced by ''Slant''.

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The context of ''Slant'' has been explained by James Smith in his critical introduction to

. ''Slant'' came into being in the mid-1960s in

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, as a journal "devoted to a Catholic exploration of .. radical politics". The first issue was published in spring 1964. This issue began with an introduction by

Raymond Williams Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 – 26 January 1988) was a Welsh socialist writer, academic, novelist and critic influential within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the media and literature contribut ...

and for the first six issues ''Slant'' was a quarterly journal. From volume 2 (February/March 1966), it evolved to a bimonthly publication, which was eventually published by Sheed and Ward, a

publishing house. ''Slant'' ceased publication in 1970 after 30 issues. The editorial board of ''Slant'' included a number of individuals who were at that time students at

, or who had recently been students in Cambridge, and who subsequently went on to academic careers:

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(who went on to be Professor of Religious Studies at the

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), Terry Eagleton, and

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(later, Professor of Biotechnology,

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(later professor of sociology and international relations at the Universities of Hull and Sussex) was its student organiser.

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