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Theology and Modern Literature (Paperback)
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Theology and Modern Literature (Paperback)
Series: Amos Wilder Library
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Description: We live in a world that calls for the separation of
church and state, and the separation of religion and the arts is of
a piece with this divided culture. However, this long-standing
breach between Christianity and the arts narrows in view of the
notable development of mutual interest and conversation between
theology and literature. Dr. Wilder discusses this historic
cleavage and then sets forth, first from the side of imaginative
literature and then from the side of the church, the evidence for
an emerging bridge of this gulf. The most significant arts of our
time have dealt with metaphysical and moral themes as well as
existential concerns by drawing on the great religious mythical
patterns of the past. Yet the church, in many respects, has become
conscious of its aesthetic shortcomings and is increasingly aware
of the modern arts. Dr. Wilder discusses the basic dilemma of
Christianity's relationship to the aesthetic order of experience,
emphasizing that religious art and symbols should not be viewed as
merely decoration, but rather as bearers of meaning and truth and
therefore as critically important to the religious tradition. Dr.
Wilder examines particular examples of the treatment of religious
subject matter in modern works by Jeffers and Faulkner. He reflects
on Jeffers' adequate and inadequate views of the central Christian
theme of vicarious atonement, and takes Faulkner's The Sound and
the Fury as opportunity for consideration of the attenuation of
Christian culture. The book aims to inform readers interested in
modern literature and the arts of relevant developments in church
circles that may both surprise and gratify, even as it introduces
churchmen and theologians to features of modern writing that very
much concern them.
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