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Listening for God - Malamud, O’Connor, Updike, & Morrison (Hardcover)
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Listening for God - Malamud, O’Connor, Updike, & Morrison (Hardcover)
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We live in a secular age, where the world and its ways seem to
indicate the absence of God. The testimony of ancient and
latter-day prophets requires more faith (or credulity) than most of
us can manage. Can we still find spiritual truths that will restore
a sense of a higher meaning to our lives? For millennia, people
have looked to literature, to scriptures, epics, poems, plays,
novels, and films for insights into the human condition. In our
increasingly rationalized world, some of these contemporary
storytellers - like a Bernard Malamud, Flannery O’Connor, John
Updike, or Toni Morrison? - stretch their art to find new words for
the sacred. The God for whom they listen is elusive, a mystery.
Their stories and novels are not make-believe accounts of a
supernatural Being. They are stories that dig beneath all the
ordinary ways we try to justify our lives to uncover in them the
traces of a transcending judgment that both exalts and humbles us.
Their engrossing stories are not just the moral parables or cunning
plots they appear on the surface to be. Peter Brown offers a highly
interdisciplinary examination of these four authors who represent
four different faith traditions within Judeo-Christianity: Jewish,
Catholic, Protestant, and syncretistic (blending Africanist creole
beliefs with Catholicism). All subversive writers, they work in
extraordinary ways to undermine their own stories and open us,
their readers, to something more, something that transcends time
and fate. The close reading this requires from us is part of the
trick, and the pleasure. Brown invites us to reread them to listen
for this elusive transcendence, a sacred mystery that rebukes both
the atheist's weak humanism and the believer's naïve
supernaturalism.
General
Imprint: |
Mercer University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
June 2023 |
Authors: |
Peter C. Brown
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Dimensions: |
160 x 237 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
255 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-88146-768-0 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-88146-768-5 |
Barcode: |
9780881467680 |
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