When the Eternal Can Be Met: The Bergsonian Theology of Time in the Works of C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot, and W. H. Auden - Couverture souple

Latta, Corey

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1625644213 ISBN 13 : 9781625644213

Editeur : Pickwick Publications, 2014

Synopsis

When the Eternal Can Be Met excavates the philosophy behind the theology of the twentieth century's most prominent Christian writers: C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot, and W. H. Auden. These three literary giants converted to Christianity within little more than a decade of one another, and interestingly, all three theological authors turned to the theme of time. All three authors also came to remarkably similar conclusions about time, positing that the temporal present moment allowed one to meet the eternal. Decades before Lewis, Eliot, and Auden sought to creatively construct a fictive or poetic theology of time, the prominent philosopher Henri Bergson wrote about time's power to transform an individual's emotional and spiritual state, a theory well known by Lewis, Eliot, and Auden. When the Eternal Can Be Met argues that one cannot fully understand Lewis, Eliot, and Auden's theology of time without understanding Bergson's theories. From the secular philosophy of Bergson dawned the most important works of literary theology and treatments of time of the twentieth century, and in the Bergson-influenced literary constructs of Lewis, Eliot, and Auden, a common theological articulation sounds out-time present is where humans meet God.

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Corey Latta is a writer, teacher, and public speaker. He writes on C. S. Lewis, the imagination, apologetics, and literary theology. He is the author of C. S. Lewis and the Art of Writing, When the Eternal Can Be Met, Functioning Fantasies, and Election and Unity in Paul's Epistle to the Romans. Corey, his wife Jennifer, and their two sets of twins (Justice and London along with Gus and Emma Jane) currently live in Memphis, TN.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pickwick Publications
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1625644213
• ISBN 13: 9781625644213
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 234
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