Sacred and Secular Scriptures: A Catholic Approach to Literature (Erasmus Institute Books) - Tapa dura

Boyle, Nicholas

 
9780268021788: Sacred and Secular Scriptures: A Catholic Approach to Literature (Erasmus Institute Books)
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ISBN 10: 0268021783 ISBN 13: 9780268021788
Editorial: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004

Sinopsis

Nicholas Boyle’s latest work begins with an observation--from theologian and medievalist Father Marie-Dominique Chenu, O.P.--that the Bible should be seen as a divinely ordained mediation between human culture and divine truth. But how far can we say that the Bible is ’literature’? Chenu is surely right that God is revealed in Scripture not through a system of ideas, but through a vivid historical narrative of people and places. But the Bible is also a sacred book. Expanding on this central dilemma, Boyle demonstrates that biblical scholarship and literary criticism must work together in the largely neglected task of integrating theology and modern secular culture. Boyle explores two lines of thought. In the first series of essays, he discusses a range of writers, primarily philosophers and theologians, who have treated the Bible as literature as a means of reconciling the sacred and the secular. In the second series, Boyle moves to the theme of literature as Bible, seeking a Catholic way of reading secular literature. These sophisticated and learned essays--drawn from the Erasmus Lectures Boyle delivered at the University of Notre Dame in 2003--cover a remarkable range of philosophers, theologians, and writers, including Herder, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Levinas, Goethe, Austen, Melville, and Tolkien. This volume will reward its reader with penetrating, and often brilliant, insights.

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Nicholas Boyle is a Fellow of Magdalene College and Professor of German Literary and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge.

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University of Notre Dame Press
Año de publicación
2004
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ISBN 10 
0268021783
ISBN 13 
9780268021788
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314
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