Through a Glass Darkly : : Essays in the Religious Imagination / / John Hawley.

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• VerfasserIn: Hawley, John,
• MitwirkendeR: Cary, Norman R.,; Chang, Sheng- Tai,; Crowley, Paul G.,; Deen Schildgen, Brenda,; D’Costa, Gavin,; Franke, William,; Greeley, Andrew,; Kristof, Jane,; Lievestro, Christiaan Theodoor,; Mormando, Franco,; Oakes, Edward T.,; Parker, Jo Ellen,; Verma, K. D.,; Wright, Terence R.,; Zonana, Joyce,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021]; ©1996
• Année de publication: 2021
• Langue: English
• Description matérielle: 1 online resource (299 p.)

These essays, interdisciplinary in their approach, demonstrate the variegation of the religious imagination from the broadest historical and denominational scope. By examining the works of philosophers and theologians, of poets, painters, and novelists – from Saint Mark to Jacques Derrida and from E...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• I CHRISTIAN EUROPE
• 1. The Gospel of Mark as Myth
• 2. An Early Renaissance Guide for the Perplexed: Bernardino of Siena's De inspirationibus
• 3. Between Earth and Heaven: Ignatian Imagination and the Aesthetics of Liberation
• 4. Erasmus, Education, and Folly
• 5. Blind Prophecy: Milton's Figurative Mode in Paradise Lost and in Some Minor Poems
• 6. A Lesson in Reading: George Eliot and the Typological Imagination
• 7. Rouault and the Catholic Revival in France
• 8. A Life of Allegory: Type and Pattern in Historical Narratives
• II INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
• 9. A View from the Far Side
• 10. The Tyranny of the Secular Imagination
• 11. Religious Polyphony in the Novels of Nuruddin
• 12. The Social and Political Vision of Sri Aurobindo
• 13. Feminist Providence: Esther, Vashti, and the Duty of Disobedience in Nineteenth-Century Hermeneutics
• 14. The Buddhist Imagination in Chinese Fiction
• 15. "Behind the Curtain": Derrida and the Religious Imagination
• CONTRIBUTORS