“The world will be made whole”: Love, Loss, and the Sacramental Imagination in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping
In this article I suggest that attending to the water imagery in Marilynne Robinson’s novel Housekeeping can reveal a sophisticated account of the sacraments, one that anticipates by several years important developments in recent Christian theology. I also argue that the novel seems thus to suggest...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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[2017]
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Christianity & literature
Год: 2017, Том: 66, Выпуск: 3, Страницы: 482-499 |
| Индексация IxTheo: | CD Христианство и культура NBP Таинство TK Новейшее время |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Theology
B Williams, Rowan, 1950- B Love B Marilynne Robinson B ROBINSON, Marilynne, 1943- B SACRAMENTS in literature B HOUSEKEEPING (Book) B Rowan Williams B Воображение B Sacrament |
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| Итог: | In this article I suggest that attending to the water imagery in Marilynne Robinson’s novel Housekeeping can reveal a sophisticated account of the sacraments, one that anticipates by several years important developments in recent Christian theology. I also argue that the novel seems thus to suggest something crucial about the nature of literary representation itself, about writing’s relationship to the reality of love. Briefly put, in Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson not only proposes a novel sacramental theology and anticipates its development in other thinkers, she also suggests a sort of sacramentality inherent to the very act of literary writing. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0148333117708263 |
