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Writing God and the Self: Samuel Beckett and C. S. Lewis (Distinguished Dissertations in Christian Theology) - Couverture souple

Jebb, Sharon

 
9781608997381: Writing God and the Self: Samuel Beckett and C. S. Lewis (Distinguished Dissertations in Christian Theology)
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1608997383 ISBN 13 : 9781608997381
Editeur : Pickwick Publications, 2011

Synopsis

Contemporary literature has, for several decades and in various guises, been dominated by questions of identity and the self. It has been forgotten that, until the Enlightenment, theological reflection emphasized the close connectedness of the self with God; knowledge of God is essential to knowledge of the self; and vice-versa, correct knowledge of the self is a necessary correlate to true knowledge of God. This has been called the double knowledge. Writing God and the Self examines two literary texts and lives as representative of two antithetical positions. The first, represented by Samuel Beckett's life and his Three Novels, is that the self is independent of God; the second, represented by C. S. Lewis and Till We Have Faces, is that God and the self are intimately connected. Beckett's radical apophaticism about God is shown to be tied to his extreme apophaticism about the self, whereas Lewis's sense of selfhood is demonstrated to be integrally connected to his sense of a personal and self-transcending God. Other voices-Augustine, Teresa of Avila, Charles Taylor, Rowan Williams, Mark McIntosh and Vladimir Lossky-join the chorus of theologians, psychologists, and other thinkers, past and present, that contribute to this exploration of what Christian theology has to say about the insistent problem of the self. Taken together, all these voices articulate a powerful vision of selfhood in relation to God that is desperately needed today.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sharon Jebb is a lecturer in literature and theology and in spiritual theology. She is currently teaching at the University of Aberdeen, and at Union Theological College, Belfast.

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Éditeur
Pickwick Publications
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1608997383
ISBN 13 
9781608997381
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
292
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