Comedy and Creation
“Comedies seem, naturally, to take a humble, if not humbling view of human existence, and at the same time to celebrate creatureliness in a way that more heroic dramas do not.… The comic vision and the biblical vision, therefore, have considerably more in common than appears at first sight.… The com...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
1982
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Theology today
Year: 1982, Volume: 39, Issue: 1, Pages: 17-26 |
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Summary: | “Comedies seem, naturally, to take a humble, if not humbling view of human existence, and at the same time to celebrate creatureliness in a way that more heroic dramas do not.… The comic vision and the biblical vision, therefore, have considerably more in common than appears at first sight.… The comedian is also a ‘creationist.’ |
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ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004057368203900104 |