The Presence of Grace in People: Graham Greene and Karl Rahner
Theology and literature, as the twentieth century progressed, increasingly treated religion not in terms of the objectifications of dogmas and devotions but as the unseen presence of the divine in an individual life. Readers and critics saw degrees of belief and modalities of sin in the novels of Gr...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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Philosophy & theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 33, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 101-112 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Rahner, Karl 1904-1984
/ Greene, Graham 1904-1991
/ Presence of God
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history |
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| Summary: | Theology and literature, as the twentieth century progressed, increasingly treated religion not in terms of the objectifications of dogmas and devotions but as the unseen presence of the divine in an individual life. Readers and critics saw degrees of belief and modalities of sin in the novels of Graham Greene. The writer acknowledged the influence of European novelists and theologians on his narratives. Karl Rahner's theology of human existence within an atmosphere of grace along with a presentation of the transcendental and the categorical in expressions of faith and grace recall some modern novels like Greene's A Burnt-Out Case. Both theologian and novelist point to God's presence as silent, varied, mysterious, and real. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-828X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Philosophy & theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/philtheol20221010145 |
