Literature and Theology

Name: Literature and Theology
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ISBN: 9780687497409

ISBN-10: 068749740X

ISBN-13: 9780687497409

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Authors: Ralph C. Wood

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A highly engaging essay on the major concerns and questions regarding literature and theology. Literature and Theology will be a volume in the Horizons in Theology series. It will offer a highly engaging essay on the major concerns and questions regarding Literature (fiction and poetry) as it intersects with theology-past and present. Ralph Wood is a senior scholar in this field, one who is able to address in a clear and concise style the scope and contours of this question as it relates to theological inquiry and application. He will open the broader lines of discussion in suggestive, evocative, and programmatic ways by focusing on representative and core literary texts. The Horizons in…

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List price: $15.99
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Publication date: 11/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 110
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Ralph C. Wood is Professor of Theology and Literature at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He is the author of several books.



Introduction



The Scandalous Baptism of Harry Ashfield in Flannery O'Connor's "The River"



The Quest for Christian Vocation in Walker Percy's The Moviegoer



The Call to Companionship in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings



The Witness Made by Martyrdom in T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral



Hospitality as the Gift Greater than Tolerance in G. K. Chesterton's The Ball and the Cross



Doubt about the Goodness of God in C. S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces



Christian Living toward the End of Time in Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz


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