A Word Not Our Own: Northrop Frye and Karl Barth on Revelation and Imagination
The complex relationship between Northrop Frye’s literary criticism and Christian theology is evident in Frye’s twofold approach to the dialectical theology of Karl Barth. Alvin A. Lee has rightly suggested that Frye’s writings contain an ‘implicit critique’ of Barthian neo-orthodoxy. However, there...
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Oxford University Press
2014
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Literature and theology
Year: 2014, Volume: 28, Issue: 4, Pages: 438-456 |
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| Summary: | The complex relationship between Northrop Frye’s literary criticism and Christian theology is evident in Frye’s twofold approach to the dialectical theology of Karl Barth. Alvin A. Lee has rightly suggested that Frye’s writings contain an ‘implicit critique’ of Barthian neo-orthodoxy. However, there are also aspects of Barth’s thought which find analogues in Frye’s writings on literature and language. Here three initial points of contact between Frye and Barth are outlined: the passage from Barth’s analogia fidei to Frye’s Blakean analogia visionis; Barth’s doctrine of the ‘Word of God’ and its radical re-envisioning in Frye’s model of imagination, particularly in the case of the Bible; and finally, the relationship of mythology to the kerygma of Christian revelation, an area in which Frye and Barth both stress the power of the divine Logos to transform human culture. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frt031 |