Wounded Faith: R.S. Thomas, Tomas Halik, and Doubting Thomas
In a world in which history is always written by the victors, the Czech theologian Tomas Halik warns that the triumph of Easter must not blot out the sound of the cry from the Cross, representing the groans of all whose voices have been taken from them. In Halik’s reflections, which begin with a ref...
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| Language: | English |
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2013
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Literature and theology
Year: 2013, Volume: 27, Issue: 4, Pages: 439-451 |
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| Summary: | In a world in which history is always written by the victors, the Czech theologian Tomas Halik warns that the triumph of Easter must not blot out the sound of the cry from the Cross, representing the groans of all whose voices have been taken from them. In Halik’s reflections, which begin with a reference to the risen Christ’s appearance to another Thomas, the disciple known as ‘Doubting’, the wounds of Christ are the trace of the presence of God in a world from which He seems to be absent. This vision offers a framework within which to interpret the work of R.S. Thomas, the poet who so frequently casts himself in the role of his Gospel namesake, who unceasingly rings the changes on the motif of the wound in Christ’s side and who tirelessly returns to the cross, as if finding there and only there the elusive ‘hidden God’ with whom he can never otherwise ‘catch up’. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frt038 |