The Chaplain, Vol. 17 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Personnel, General Commission On Chaplains And Armed Forces

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ISBN 10 : 133141251X ISBN 13 : 9781331412519

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A thoughtful look at how modern drama and fiction probe truth, self, and faith, alongside real-world chaplain news from military and church life.

This issue blends literary analysis with practical updates for chaplains and faith communities.

The featured essays examine how characters struggle to choose between make-believe worlds and harsh reality, with close readings of Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and T. S. Eliot. It also surveys three contemporary novels to illuminate themes of self-deception, loss, and the search for meaning in a changing world.

• Clear, accessible analysis of major plays and novels
• Discussions of self, illusion, and the role of faith in human life
• Doctrines of Man in Fiction and what modern literature says about redemption
• News and notes on chaplains, ecumenism, and church life in military and civilian contexts

Ideal for readers of drama criticism, religious literature, and readers curious about chaplaincy and church work in the contemporary world.

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Excerpt from The Chaplain, Vol. 17

Each Of these forms of deception carries its own peculiar problem. For a man may deny to himself the self that he is, but he cannot deny that he is a self; he may hide his real self from others, but he knows that he must present some self to them; he may shut his eyes to the real world, but he is forced to admit that there is a world. In a sense he rejects the creation, including hisown creaturehood, and settles down to play God. Inasmuch as J ahweh botched the creation, man will re create, and this time not out of nothing, but out of a diseased and frightened imagination. He will create the self which greets him in the privacy of his morning ablu tions, the self which ventures forth preparing a face to meet the faces that [it] and the selves which are the other faces.

Three contemporary dramatists who have admirably presented man's misguided struggle to fashion his own world are Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and T. S. Eliot. Each has presented the problem in his own way; and each has resolved the problem - or left it unresolved - in his own way.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Chaplain, Vol. 17

Human Mankind cannot bear very much reality." So speaks Thomas Becket in T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, and so affirms a large body of contemporary literature, doubtlessly reflecting certain psychoanalytic, philosophic, and theological speculations of recent decades. The flight from reality is played in many variations: a person may be fearful of knowing his real self; he may be fearful of revealing that self to others; he may be fearful of facing his real world. Fearing to acknowledge or expose his real self, he clings to a role or assumes a mask not properly his: fearing to face the real world around him, he peers through self-adjusted spectacles which reflect the world as he would like it to be. In some cases, suspecting that self-knowledge might lead to insanity or suicide, he plays a game with himself, never shaving in front of a mirror and never undressing in his own presence; in others, having peered into the mirror with some horror, he never removes his beard before others or undresses in front of the window; in still others, he outfits his dwelling with translucent windows, not so much in fear that others will see in as that he will see out.

Each of these forms of deception carries its own peculiar problem. For a man may deny to himself the self that he is, but he cannot deny that he is a self; he may hide his real self from others, but he knows that he must present some self to them; he may shut his eyes to the real world, but he is forced to admit that there is a world.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133141251X
• ISBN 13: 9781331412519
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 55
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible