Report from Steinbeck Country
“Steinbeck, like liberation theologians, recognizes that corporate sin must yield to some form of grace that transcends individuals. The great owners and bankers are caught in the sinful system just as tightly as the migrants. What the novel [The Grapes of Wrath] suggests, and what the liberationist...
| Published in: | Theology today |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
1989
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Theology today
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
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| Summary: | “Steinbeck, like liberation theologians, recognizes that corporate sin must yield to some form of grace that transcends individuals. The great owners and bankers are caught in the sinful system just as tightly as the migrants. What the novel [The Grapes of Wrath] suggests, and what the liberationists assert, is that change in the system will be in the direction of justice only if it comes from the bottom up rather than from the top down.” |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004057368904600304 |