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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Theology and Literature"”.
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Footnotes to Coleridge: A Genealogy of Theology and Literature
… examines Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s theological and literary legacy in the 20th century. My argument does not represent a direct study of Coleridge or his poetry, but rather an analysis of the ways in which Coleridge’s thought has been appropriated (and misappropriated) in recent debates over the …
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Uncertainty Before and After Faith: The Dynamics of Belief in Theology and Literature
… a person's imaginative orientation to trust and hope in the presence of God's grace in creation and human life. I will approach this issue through the category of uncertainty, specifically uncertainty's relationship to faith, as this relationship emerges in novels by François Mauriac, Graham …
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Catholic Literary Theory: The Conditional Existentialism of Four Protagonists and Their Creators
… a certain extent, creates her characters freely and free with the possibility and probability that they may speak against their creator and even finally rebel. This dissertation reflects upon the relative infiniteness of four literary authors - Flannery O'Connor, Mary McCarthy, Walker Percy, and …
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The Eugenic Sterilization of Puerto Rican Women: A Case of US Interests and Religious/Spiritual Freedom
<p>Between the 1930s and 1970s, approximately one-third of Puerto Rican women of childbearing age (20–49) were sterilized— the highest rate in the world during that time. Driven by U.S. political and economic interests, and underpinned by eugenic ideology, Governor Blanton Winship and President …
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Henry Fielding : literary and theological misplacement
This study is intended as a dialogue between literature and theology, utilizing selected works of the playwright and novelist, Henry Fielding (1707-54). While historical studies of Fielding have clearly yielded much of importance, a broader and less deterministic assessment concerning the latent …
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Shakespeare and the Grace of Words: A Doxological Reading of "King Lear" and "The Winter's Tale"
This thesis explores the connections between theology and literature through a doxological approach, an understanding of all language as grounded in praise for the divine. My textual analyses of Shakespeare’s plays both instantiate and complement this approach, learning from insights from the …
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Towards an Ecotheological Imagination: A Study in the Prose and Poetry of S.T. Coleridge, C.S. Lewis, and Wendell Berry
… of imagination in both the analytic prose and poetry of S.T. Coleridge, C.S. Lewis, and Wendell Berry, the argument of my thesis is for two related elements. First, I argue that Lewis and Berry stand within a Coleridgean heritage regarding their conceptions of imagination and, second, that …