The Charge of God: "Laudato Si'" read through Chesterton, Wordsworth, and Hopkins
G. K. Chesterton, William Wordsworth, and Gerard Manley Hopkins are set in conversation with Pope Francis’s Laudato Si' (2015), to show how far those writers anticipate its animus against technocratic capitalism, but also, more surprisingly, how far Laudato Si' challenges the progressive a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Literature and theology
Year: 2023, Volume: 37, Issue: 3, Pages: 216-240 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NBC Doctrine of God NBD Doctrine of Creation VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Gerard Manley Hopkins
B Ecocriticism B G.K. Chesterton B William Wordsworth B Laudato Si' B Posthumanism |
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| Summary: | G. K. Chesterton, William Wordsworth, and Gerard Manley Hopkins are set in conversation with Pope Francis’s Laudato Si' (2015), to show how far those writers anticipate its animus against technocratic capitalism, but also, more surprisingly, how far Laudato Si' challenges the progressive assumptions of contemporary eco-activism. Chesterton, Wordsworth, and Hopkins do not merely foreshadow and clarify the theological stakes of a papal document. By making even single words expressive of a whole worldview (achieving what William Empson called a "compacted doctrine"), their writings prove more imaginatively affective, as well as more theologically adequate than the communicative formalities available to the theological treatise as a genre. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frad021 |