The critical spirit and the will to believe : essays in nineteenth-century literature and religion
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The critical spirit and the will to believe : essays in nineteenth-century literature and religion
Macmillan, 1989
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Includes index
Papers read at the Third National Conference on Literature and Religion, Durham University, 1986
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These wide-ranging interdisciplinary essays attempt to shed new light on the characteristic tensions of the 19th century, a period torn between a continuing will to believe in the truths of Christianity and a pervasive spirit of criticism. Focusing particularly on the interaction of literature and theology, the work begins with general issues - the development of Biblical criticism, the Protestant "Lives of Jesus", the question of immortality and the impact of evolutionary theory, and then proceeds to a close analysis of literary texts by Heinrich Heine, Hopkins and Tennyson and by lesser-known figures including Sheridan le Fanu, James Anthony Froude and Mrs Humphry Ward. Later essays consider the impact of certain continental thinkers culminating with Hans Urs von Balthasar's contemporary plea to restore the aesthetic dimension to faith. The essays also show links between the experience of the Victorians and European thinkers and missionary experience in Africa.
Table of Contents
- Poetics and narrative - Biblical criticism and the 19th century novel, S.Prickett
- "can these dry bones live?" - questions of belief in a future life, M.Wheeler
- a renovation of images - 19th century protestant "Lives of Jesus" and Roman Catholic alleged appearances of the Blessed Virgin Mary, J.Kent
- truth to nature - science, religion and the Pre-Raphaelites, H.Fraser
- doubting clerics - from Froude to "Robert Elsmere" via George Eliot, R.Ashton
- doubt and the Victorian woman, E.Jay
- doubting castle - the gothic mode of questioning, A.Milbank
- the genealogy of honest doubt, R.M.Ryan
- the successful failure of ordering structures in Tennyson's "Idylls of the King", J.E.Barcus
- Victorian certainty and Zulu doubt - a study in Christian missionary hermeneutics, M.Jarrett-Kerr
- the critical spirit and the will to believe - Heinrich Heine, a test case, K.Kuschel
- Ernest Renan and the religion of science, B.M.G.Readon
- Von Hugel and the will to believe, N.Sagovsky
- Hans Urs von Balthasar - bringing beauty back to faith, J.Coulson.
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