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Freedom and Limit - A Dialogue between Literature and Christian Doctrine (Hardcover)
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Freedom and Limit - A Dialogue between Literature and Christian Doctrine (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Literature and Religion
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If imagination is understood to be a human response to the
self-revelation of God, what practical results might this have for
the work both of literary criticism and theology? In contrast to
the freedom of the literary imagination, Christian doctrine seems
to hedge meaning around with limits, distilling concepts from
images, and summing up the loose ends of stories in one unified
story. But the author sets out to show how image and story in
poetry and novels can actually help the theologian to make
doctrinal statements, while at the same time insights gained from
theology can assist the critical reading of literature. Indeed,
both theologians and creative writers find human existence to be
characterized by an even more basic tension between freedom and
limit, which accounts for a sense of "fallenness", and which a
dialogue between literature and Christian doctrine can do much to
illuminate. Such a dialogue is worked out in studies of the poetry
of William Blake and Gerard Manley Hopkins, and the novels of
D.H.Lawrence, Iris Murdoch and William Golding.
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