God, Literature and Process Thought
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 2017
Book
Hardback
978-1-138-72909-4 (ISBN)
Description
This title was first published in 2002: This book explores and evaluates evolutionary theism - which asserts that God is subject to change as humanity is subject to change - charting the way it surfaces as a theme in classic, modern, and post-modern forms of creative writing, philosophical theology, and cultural theory. Probing texts by process thinkers such as Whitehead, Bergson, Teilhard, and Hartshorne, as well as the literary art of figures such as Aeschylus, Byron, Goethe, Greene, Joyce, Kazantzakis, Levertov, and Shakespeare, the twelve scholars in this volume reflect on God and the world, on reading and interpretation, and on being and becoming. The contributors emerge with fresh perspectives which promise to make a substantial contribution to the field of literature and religion today.
Reviews / Votes
'... a valuable contribution to the field of religion and literature in general and will be particularly useful to scholars working to apply process theology and philosophy to the interpretation of literature... This combination of theory, application, and poetic reflection is one of the book's great strengths... a very worthwhile volume for scholars of all stripes.' Religious Studies ReviewMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-138-72909-4 (9781138729094)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Contents: Introduction: Literary art and relationality, Darren J. N. Middleton; Process Thought and Literary Theory: Reading in the modern wake, Andrew W. Hass; Derrida and Whitehead, Timothy Mooney; Concretizing concrete experience, Santiago Sia; Whitehead's hermeneutical cosmology, Rene P. H. Munnik; Process Thought and Literature: Suffering and surrender in the midst of divine persuasion, Aliman Sears; Promethean atheism, Barry L. Whitney; Sticky evil: Macbeth and the karma of the equivocal, William Desmond; Graham Greene's Teilhardian vision, Darren J. N. Middleton; Nikos Kazantzakis, Bergson and God, Daniel A. Dombrowski; Jacob Boehme and the Romantic roots of process thought, Lewis Owens; Denise Levertov's poetics of process, Bobby Caudle Rogers; Process Poesis: A place and a moment: one poem about becoming, Christina K. Hutchins; Bibliography; Index.