Dante and Other Waning Classics (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Albert Mordell

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330559576 ISBN 13 : 9781330559574

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Christendom. These include two highly lauded epic poems of modem times, the Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost; two works the circulation of each of which has been surpassed only by the Bible, the Imitation of Christ and Pilgrim s Progress; a noted religious autobiography, St. Augustines Confessions and an important product in Christian apologetics, Pascal s Thoughts. These works are saturated in whole or part with theological dogmas that have been discarded by many people to-day. It is my intention to show how medieval fallacies have ruined what might otherwise have been perfect literary masterpieces. The passages in these books that still live are the secular ones. These we can still read with enjoyment, but the authors regarded them as subsidiary to the theological intent. I have tried to point out that the literary value of these classics has waned in proportion to the extent and falsity of the theology pervading them. Literature should not be a vehicle for theology. The poet often must describe sensations the theologian fears; he must express ideas the latter dare not think. Theology attaches itself usually to untenable and evanescent dogmas; its spirit is that of restraint; its atmosphere is confining. Literature shuns creeds and edicts and theories; it knows few barriers; it seeks the open. The chief mission of literature is often to imdo the evil work wrought by false theologies.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330559576
• ISBN 13: 9781330559574
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 136
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