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More Things in Heaven and Earth - Shakespeare, Theology, and the Interplay of Texts (Hardcover)
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More Things in Heaven and Earth - Shakespeare, Theology, and the Interplay of Texts (Hardcover)
Series: Richard E. Myers Lectures
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Shakespeare's plays are filled with religious references and
spiritual concerns. His characters-like Hamlet in this book's
title-speak the language of belief. Theology can enable the modern
reader to see more clearly the ways in which Shakespeare draws on
the Bible, doctrine, and the religious controversies of the long
English Reformation. But as Oxford don Paul Fiddes shows in his
intertextual approach, the theological thought of our own time can
in turn be shaped by the reading of Shakespeare's texts and the
viewing of his plays. In More Things in Heaven and Earth, Fiddes
argues that Hamlet's famous phrase not only underscores the blurred
boundaries between the warring Protestantism and Catholicism of
Shakespeare's time; it is also an appeal for basic spirituality,
free from any particular doctrinal scheme. This spirituality is
characterized by the belief in prioritizing loving relations over
institutions and social organization. And while it also implies a
constant awareness of mortality, it seeks a transcendence in which
love outlasts even death. In such a spiritual vision, forgiveness
is essential, human justice is always imperfect, communal values
overcome political supremacy, and one is on a quest to find the
story of one's own life. It is in this context that Fiddes
considers not only the texts behind Shakespeare's plays but also
what can be the impact of his plays on the writing of doctrinal
texts by theologians today. Fiddes ultimately shows how this more
expansive conception of Shakespeare is grounded in the trinitarian
relations of God in which all the texts of the world are held and
shaped.
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