Through a Glass Darkly: Essays in the Religious Imagination

John Hawley

Published by Fordham University Press 1996

Through a Glass Darkly

Essays in the Religious Imagination

John Hawley

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823296125

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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 Erasmus, Loyola, and Milton to Rouault to Andrew Greeley – the essayists seek to answer the question Jesus posed to his disciples: “Who do you say that I am?” and to anticipate the equally contentious query: “How do you say who I am?”

The essays together explore the religious imagination through the question of transcendence, using both the age-old Christian imagination and the contemporary world wherein the divisions between religious cultures are less fixed, an age of imaginative permeability where the absence of God is as present as the presence of God.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
I CHRISTIAN EUROPE
1. The Gospel of Mark as Myth Brenda Deen Schildgen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. An Early Renaissance Guide for the Perplexed: Bernardino of Siena's De inspirationibus Franco Mormando Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
3. Between Earth and Heaven: Ignatian Imagination and the Aesthetics of Liberation Paul G. Crowley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
4. Erasmus, Education, and Folly Christiaan Theodoor Lievestro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
5. Blind Prophecy: Milton's Figurative Mode in Paradise Lost and in Some Minor Poems William Franke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
6. A Lesson in Reading: George Eliot and the Typological Imagination Jo Ellen Parker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
7. Rouault and the Catholic Revival in France Jane Kristof Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
8. A Life of Allegory: Type and Pattern in Historical Narratives Edward T. Oakes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
II INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
9. A View from the Far Side Andrew Greeley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
10. The Tyranny of the Secular Imagination Gavin D’Costa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
11. Religious Polyphony in the Novels of Nuruddin Norman R. Cary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
12. The Social and Political Vision of Sri Aurobindo K. D. Verma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
13. Feminist Providence: Esther, Vashti, and the Duty of Disobedience in Nineteenth-Century Hermeneutics Joyce Zonana Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
14. The Buddhist Imagination in Chinese Fiction Sheng- Tai Chang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
15. "Behind the Curtain": Derrida and the Religious Imagination Terence R. Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 299

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Published: December 6, 2021
ISBN: 9780823296125