The Mind of the Maker vs. the mind of the maker : Dorothy L. Sayers' trinitarian theory of creation applied to her plays Zeal of Thy House and The Devil to Pay.

In an attempt to explain the Trinity, Dorothy L. Sayers has a carefully worked out Trinitarian theology of Creation that she outlined in her book The Mind of the Maker and elaborated in other Christian essays in The Whimsical Christian: Christian Letters to a Post-Christian World. The nature of her theory is that every act of creation mirrors the three-fold structure of the master Creator, and thus can be found in ourselves because we are a creation of God. In order to marry her plays and her theology, I propose to validate Sayers' claim that a three-fold structure can be found in any created thing by applying her Trinitarian theology of Creation to Sayers' own plays. In order to accomplish this, I will first carefully spell out the Trinitarian theology of Creation and then evaluate how it gives dramatic expression to her plays Zeal of Thy House and The Devil to Pay.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Grantor

Baylor University.

Year dc:date.issued

2001

Author dc:creator

• Price, Sara.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Wood, Ralph C.

• Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), 1893-1957 -- Criticism and interpretation.
• Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), 1893-1957 -- Religion.
• Trinity in literature.

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en

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https://hdl.handle.net/2104/14590

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oai:baylor-ir.tdl.org:2104/14590