Freedom and Limit: A Dialogue Between Literature and Christian Doctrine

by Paul S. Fiddes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333491424
• ISBN13: 9780333491423
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"