The Theology of Modern Fiction
Author | : Thomas Gunn Selby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Christian fiction, English |
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Author | : Thomas Gunn Selby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Christian fiction, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas Gunn Selby |
Publisher | : [Norwood, Pa.] : Norwood Editions |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Christian fiction, English |
ISBN | : 9780848224769 |
Author | : Thomas Gunn Selby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alan P. R. Gregory |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Christianity and literature |
ISBN | : 9781602584624 |
Explores the sublime in Christian theology and science fiction.
Author | : Christopher Douglas |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2016-05-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501703528 |
The rise of the Christian Right took many writers and literary critics by surprise, trained as we were to think that religions waned as societies became modern. In If God Meant to Interfere, Christopher Douglas shows that American writers struggled to understand and respond to this new social and political force. Religiously inflected literature since the 1970s must be understood in the context of this unforeseen resurgence of conservative Christianity, he argues, a resurgence that realigned the literary and cultural fields. Among the writers Douglas considers are Marilynne Robinson, Barbara Kingsolver, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, N. Scott Momaday, Gloria Anzaldúa, Philip Roth, Carl Sagan, and Dan Brown. Their fictions engaged a wide range of topics: religious conspiracies, faith and wonder, slavery and imperialism, evolution and extraterrestrial contact, alternate histories and ancestral spiritualities. But this is only part of the story. Liberal-leaning literary writers responding to the resurgence were sometimes confused by the Christian Right’s strange entanglement with the contemporary paradigms of multiculturalism and postmodernism —leading to complex emergent phenomena that Douglas terms "Christian multiculturalism" and "Christian postmodernism." Ultimately, If God Meant to Interfere shows the value of listening to our literature for its sometimes subterranean attention to the religious and social upheavals going on around it.
Author | : Thomas Gunn Selby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas G. Selby |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2015-06-28 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781330460375 |
Excerpt from The Theology of Modern Fiction: Being the Twenty-Sixth Fernley Lecture Delivered in Liverpool, July, 1896 IN the early centuries religious teaching was formulated in Church councils, and dispensed amongst the half-taught races of Christendom, 'without scowl of protest from the docile patient. It is a far cry thence to the present hour, when a large section of the public picks up its religious ideas outside the Church. The daily press coins the commercial and political creeds of our fellow country men, and the successful novel-writer coins the religious creeds of equally large numbers. It may be a question how long the currency will wear; but for the time being a dozen story-writers, whom it would be easy to name, have influenced multitudes of people to an extent that may well be the despair of an equal number of trained divines or famous preachers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Samuel Law Wilson |
Publisher | : Folcroft, Pa. : Folcroft Library Editions |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Aníbal González |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2018-05-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0822983028 |
In Search of the Sacred Book studies the artistic incorporation of religious concepts such as prophecy, eternity, and the afterlife in the contemporary Latin American novel. It departs from sociopolitical readings by noting the continued relevance of religion in Latin American life and culture, despite modernity's powerful secularizing influence. Analyzing Jorge Luis Borges's secularized "narrative theology" in his essays and short stories, the book follows the development of the Latin American novel from the early twentieth century until today by examining the attempts of major novelists, from María Luisa Bombal, Alejo Carpentier, and Juan Rulfo, to Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and José Lezama Lima, to "sacralize" the novel by incorporating traits present in the sacred texts of many religions. It concludes with a view of the "desacralization" of the novel by more recent authors, from Elena Poniatowska and Fernando Vallejo to Roberto Bolaño.
Author | : Thomas Gunn Selby |
Publisher | : |
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Release | : 1896 |
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