When the eternal can be met [electronic resource] : the Bergsonian theology of time in the works of C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden / Corey Latta.
Publisher: Cambridge : The Lutterworth Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780718842727
- 0718842723
- Philosophy and religion
- Time -- Religious aspects
- Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941 -- Influence
- Eliot, T.S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Lewis, C.S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Theology
- Time -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Philosophy and religion
- Time -- Religious aspects
- RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts
- 201.61 23
- B2430.B43 L38 2014
Includes bibliographical references.
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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Task of Theologizing Literature in the Twentieth Century; 2. Bergsonian Conceptions of Time: Duration, Dualism, and Intuition; 3. Meeting the Eternal Bergsonism and the Theology of Present Time in C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce in the Present; 4. T.S. Eliot's Bergsonian "Always Present": Incarnation and Duration in Four Quartets; 5. W.H. Auden's Themes of Time and Dualism: The Bergsonian Theology of "Kairos and Logos"; Conclusion; Bibliography; Back Cover.
This book is about philosophical influence on theological articulations. Specifically, Latta claims that C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot, and W.H. Auden's post-conversion works that have time as a theological theme cannot be completely understood without knowledge of the philosophy of Henri Bergson.
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