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What is the Christian literary imagination? That question was put to the writers who have contributed to this collection of essays. They were asked, in answering it, to choose and write about a work of literature that seemed to them to illustrate one of the varied ways in which the Christian imagination sees the world, to define by example the meaning of the term. A variety of beliefs (or indeed unbeliefs) are expressed by the contributors and authors they selected to discuss. But what the essays have in common is an inquiry into the nature of belief and the means by which the reader’s imagination can itself be stirred through the work of the author under discussion. The book is structured chronologically, with essays on literature ranging from Anglo-Saxon England to 21st-Century America, but the contributors show a freedom of movement and reference across the centuries in their essays, sometimes deliberately juxtaposing the historical with the contemporary. What emerges from the collection is a shared inquiry into the enduring Christian vision of God’s engagement with the world.
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Genre |
: Religion |
Author |
: Michael Scott |
Publisher |
: Vernon Press |
Release |
: 2024-09-24 |
File |
: 357 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9798881900540 |
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BOOK EXCERPT:
What is the Christian literary imagination? That question was put to the writers who have contributed to this collection of essays. They were asked, in answering it, to choose and write about a work of literature that seemed to them to illustrate one of the varied ways in which the Christian imagination sees the world, to define by example the meaning of the term. A variety of beliefs (or indeed unbeliefs) are expressed by the contributors and authors they selected to discuss. But what the essays have in common is an inquiry into the nature of belief and the means by which the reader's imagination can itself be stirred through the work of the author under discussion. The book is structured chronologically, with essays on literature ranging from Anglo-Saxon England to 21st-Century America, but the contributors show a freedom of movement and reference across the centuries in their essays, sometimes deliberately juxtaposing the historical with the contemporary. What emerges from the collection is a shared inquiry into the enduring Christian vision of God's engagement with the world.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Michael J. Collins |
Publisher |
: Series in Philosophy of Religion |
Release |
: 2024-06-03 |
File |
: 0 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 1648899021 |
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The Christian Imagination brings together in a single source the best that has been written about the relationship between literature and the Christian faith. This anthology covers all of the major topics that fall within this subject and includes essays and excerpts from fifty authors, including C.S. Lewis, Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Sayers, and Frederick Buechner.
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Genre |
: Religion |
Author |
: Leland Ryken |
Publisher |
: Shaw Books |
Release |
: 2011-12-07 |
File |
: 482 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780307568847 |
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Organized by heretical movements and texts from the Gnostic Gospels to The Book of Mormon, this book uses the work of James Joyce – particularly Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake – as a prism to explore how the history of Christian heresy remains part of how we read, write, and think about books today. Erickson argues that the study of classical, medieval, and modern debates over heresy and orthodoxy provide new ways of understanding modernist literature and literary theory. Using Joyce's works as a springboard to explore different perspectives and intersections of 20th century literature and the modern literary and religious imagination, this book gives us new insights into how our modern and “secular” reading practices unintentionally reflect how we understand our religious histories.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Gregory Erickson |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Release |
: 2022-02-10 |
File |
: 241 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781350212770 |
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How can Christianity touch the imagination of our contemporaries when ever fewer people in the West identify as religious? Timothy Radcliffe argues we must show how everything we believe is an invitation to live fully. God says: 'I put before you life and death: choose life'. Anyone who understands the beauty and messiness of human life – novelists, poets, filmmakers and so on – can be our allies, whether they believe or not. The challenge is not today's secularism but its banality. We accompany the disciples as they struggle to understand this strange man who heals, casts out demons and offers endless forgiveness. In the face of death, he teaches them what it means to be alive in God. Then he embraces all that afflicts and crushes humanity. Finally, Radcliffe explores what it means for us to be alive spiritually, physically, sacramentally, justly and prayerfully. The result is a compelling new understanding of the words of Jesus: 'I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.'
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Genre |
: Religion |
Author |
: Timothy Radcliffe |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Release |
: 2019-10-03 |
File |
: 224 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781472970237 |
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: William F. Lynch |
Publisher |
: University of Notre Dame Press |
Release |
: 1975 |
File |
: 232 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UVA:X000761496 |
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A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform (www. oapen. org). Fictional reconstructions of the Gospels continue to find a place in contemporary literature and in the popular imagination. Present day writers of New Testament fiction and drama are usually considered as part of a tradition formed by mid-to-late-twentieth-century authors such as Robert Graves, Nikos Kazantzakis and Anthony Burgess. This book looks back further to the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, when the templates of the majority of today's Gospel fictions and dramas were set down. In doing so, it examines the extent to which significant works of biblical scholarship both influenced and inspired literary works. Focusing on writers such as Oscar Wilde, George Moore and Marie Corelli, this timely new addition to the English Association Monographs series will be essential reading for scholars working at the intersection of literature and theology.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Jennifer Stevens |
Publisher |
: Liverpool University Press |
Release |
: 2010-01-01 |
File |
: 321 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781846314704 |
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A disturbing but ultimately discredited strain in American thought, eugenics was a crucial ideological force in the early twentieth century. Luczak investigates the work of writers like Jack London and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, to consider the impact of eugenic racial discourse on American literary production from 1900-1940.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Ewa Barbara Luczak |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Release |
: 2016-04-29 |
File |
: 281 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781137545794 |
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This volume contains articles on various aspects of literary imagination, with essays ranging from Petrarch to Voltaire, on the canon, with essays on western history as one of shifting cultural ideals, and on the Christian Middle Ages. The volume is a Festschrift for Burcht Pranger of the University of Amsterdam.
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Genre |
: Language Arts & Disciplines |
Author |
: Willemien Otten |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Release |
: 2010 |
File |
: 448 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789004184961 |
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Examining the creative thought that arose in response to 19th-century religious controversies, this book demonstrates that the pressures exerted by historical methods of biblical scholarship prompted an imaginative recovery of wisdom literature. During the Victorian period, new approaches to the interpretation of sacred texts called into question traditional ideas about biblical inspiration, motivating literary transformations of inherited symbols, metaphors, and forms. Drawing on the theoretical work of Paul Ricoeur, Denae Dyck considers how Victorian writers from a variety of belief positions used wisdom literature to reframe their experiences of questioning, doubt, and uncertainty: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George MacDonald, George Eliot, John Ruskin, and Olive Schreiner. This study contributes to the reassessment of historical and contemporary narratives of secularization by calling attention to wisdom literature as a vital, distinctive genre that animated the search for meaning within an increasingly ideologically diverse world.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Denae Dyck |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Release |
: 2024-02-08 |
File |
: 217 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781350335387 |