Chesterton's Decadent Theology: Redeeming Sin with Oscar Wilde
Chesterton's time at the Slade has consistently been described as a "nightmare" from which he managed to escape. Oscar Wilde, the disgraced "bandmaster" of the movement that Chesterton loathed takes the role of bête noire in the seldom disputed designation of Wilde as hetero...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2022
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2022, Volume: 71, Issue: 4, Pages: 581-600 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CD Christianity and Culture KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
G. K. Chesterton
B Sin B Oscar Wilde B decadent theology |
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| Summary: | Chesterton's time at the Slade has consistently been described as a "nightmare" from which he managed to escape. Oscar Wilde, the disgraced "bandmaster" of the movement that Chesterton loathed takes the role of bête noire in the seldom disputed designation of Wilde as heterodox poseur and Chesterton as the antidote to decadence. This article seeks to undo the cartoon antagonism and consider the possibility for a literary and theological kinship between them, recasting the "nightmare" as a blessing that compelled Chesterton to orthodoxy, and questioning, more broadly, the role of sin on the road to redemption. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/chy.2022.0056 |