Literature and Theology From a North American Perspective
The ‘non-confessional’ stance of Literature and Theology, together with its embrace of ‘theology broadly understood’, has allowed the Journal to carve out a unique niche in the academic terrain of North America, for the Journal affords a forum for theologically inclined scholars to pursue the enterp...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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Literature and theology
Year: 2012, Volume: 26, Issue: 3, Pages: 273-288 |
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| Summary: | The ‘non-confessional’ stance of Literature and Theology, together with its embrace of ‘theology broadly understood’, has allowed the Journal to carve out a unique niche in the academic terrain of North America, for the Journal affords a forum for theologically inclined scholars to pursue the enterprise traditionally, and perhaps still most often, associated with its title, that of seeking transcendent meanings manifest or concealed within the immanence of literary texts, while also welcoming contributions that represent perspectives at odds, sometimes quite emphatically, with any traditional, strictly literalist, etymological construal of ‘theology.’ This article considers the rather precarious relationship that ‘theology’ has historically had to American culture, before concluding with some reflections on why the specific association of ‘theology’ with ‘literature’ in this Journal’s purview has proven so alluring and fertile a subject in America over the past twenty-five years, and why this same association promises to make the Journal all the more crucial a forum for critical reflection in the coming decades. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frs029 |