Theological Humanism as Living Praxis: Reading Surfaces and Depth in Margaret Edson's Wit

This essay outlines and illustrates ways that ‘theological humanism’ provides methodological possibilities for scholars working in religion and literary studies. I suggest there is a need to investigate more humanistic methods of interpreting literature by exploring approaches that engage questions...

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Main Author: Wriglesworth, Chad (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2008
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2008, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 210-222
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Summary:This essay outlines and illustrates ways that ‘theological humanism’ provides methodological possibilities for scholars working in religion and literary studies. I suggest there is a need to investigate more humanistic methods of interpreting literature by exploring approaches that engage questions of sacred depth. After stressing the necessary paradoxes of theological humanism as an interpretive and lived stance in the world, I offer a reading of Margaret Edson's Wit that is shaped by these principles.
ISSN:1477-4623
Contains:Enthalten in: Literature and theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frm052