The Sleep of Christ: Incarnation and the Queerness of Heresy in W. H. Auden’s “For the Time Being”

This article explores the circuitry between queerness, heresy, and materialist theology in a major literary work by W. H. Auden from the 1940s. Rather than banking on flights of erotic or ecstatic transcendence, Auden’s “For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio” (1944) intimates queer sexuality as a...

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Main Author: Soni, Raji Singh (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2014
In: Religion and the arts
Year: 2014, Volume: 18, Issue: 4, Pages: 543-570
Further subjects:B Heresy theology queerness materialism secularity existentialism
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)