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Freedom and Limit

A Dialogue between Literature and Christian Doctrine

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  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. Paul S. Fiddes

    1. Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, UK

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Part of the book series: Studies in Literature and Religion (SLR)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Foundations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Imagination and Revelation

      • Paul S. Fiddes
      Pages 3-26

    3. The Creative Dialogue

      • Paul S. Fiddes
      Pages 27-46

    4. The Shape of the Story

      • Paul S. Fiddes
      Pages 47-64

    5. Comedy and Tragedy: the Shakespearian Boundary

      • Paul S. Fiddes
      Pages 65-82

  3. Holding the Dialogue

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. William Blake and the Image of the City

      • Paul S. Fiddes
      Pages 85-115

    3. Gerard Manley Hopkins and Mortal Beauty

      • Paul S. Fiddes
      Pages 116-145

    4. D.H. Lawrence: Agape and Eros

      • Paul S. Fiddes
      Pages 146-172

    5. Iris Murdoch and Love of the Truth

      • Paul S. Fiddes
      Pages 173-204

    6. William Golding and the Human Darkness

      • Paul S. Fiddes
      Pages 205-233

    7. In Conclusion

      • Paul S. Fiddes
      Pages 233-234

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 235-269
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If imagination is understood to be a human response to the self-revelation of God, what practical results might this have for the work both of literary criticism and theology? Both theologians and creative writers find human existence to be characterised by basic tension between freedom and limit, which accounts for a sense of 'fallenness', and which a dialogue between literature and Christian doctrine can do much to illuminate. Such a dialogue is worked out in studies of the poetry of William Blake and Gerard Manley Hopkins, and the novels of D.H. Lawrence, Iris Murdoch and William Golding.

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  • Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, UK

    Paul S. Fiddes

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