Theology After Reading explores how recent novelists, alongside certain post-War Christian theologians, appear to be challenging, inverting, reinterpreting, and sometimes even affirming, the basic questions and answers of more traditional theologians. Focusing on five novels, Darren Middleton’s book illustrates how literary art provokes theological reflection. Examining Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair, Toni Morrison’s Sula, Nikos Kazantzakis’s The Last Temptation of Christ, Earl Lovelace’s The Wine of Astonishment, and Paul Thigpen’s My Visit to Hell, Middleton deftly illuminates the expression of both mainstream and progressive Christian doctrines as themes in these selected works of fiction, ultimately reaffirming the graced search for meaning in the mindful Christian life.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Introduction
It’s Fiction: What’s Theology Got to Do with It?
1. God
Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair
2. Humanity
Toni Morrison’s Sula
3. Jesus
Nikos Kazantzakis’ The Last Temptation of Christ
4. Church
Earl Lovelace’s The Wine of Astonishment
5. Eschatology
Paul Thigpen’s My Visit to Hell
Appendix I: An Interview with Paul Thigpen
Appendix II: Further Reading
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Despre autor
Darren J. N. Middleton (Ph.D. The University of Glasgow, Scotland) is Associate Professor of Literature and Theology at Texas Christian University. He has published five books, including Broken Hallelujah: Nikos Kazantzakis and Christian Theology (2007).
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