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

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ISBN 10 : 0718893603 ISBN 13 : 9780718893606

Editeur : Lutterworth Press, 2014

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Revue de presse :

'A daring venture.... Latta's ambitious attempt to locate Lewis more clearly within the 20th century has much of interest.' --Brian Murdoch, Literature and Theology, Volume 31, Issue 3

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Lutterworth Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0718893603
• ISBN 13: 9780718893606
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 234