Through a Glass Darkly : : Essays in the Religious Imagination / / John Hawley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Hawley, John,
• MitwirkendeR: Cary, Norman R.,; Chang, Sheng- Tai,; Crowley, Paul G.,; Deen Schildgen, Brenda,; D’Costa, Gavin,; Franke, William,; Greeley, Andrew,; Kristof, Jane,; Lievestro, Christiaan Theodoor,; Mormando, Franco,; Oakes, Edward T.,; Parker, Jo Ellen,; Verma, K. D.,; Wright, Terence R.,; Zonana, Joyce,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (299 p.)

These essays, interdisciplinary in their approach, demonstrate the variegation of the religious imagination from the broadest historical and denominational scope. By examining the works of philosophers and theologians, of poets, painters, and novelists – from Saint Mark to Jacques Derrida and from Erasmus, Loyola, and Milton to Rouault to Andrew Greeley – the essayists seek to answer the question Jesus posed to his disciples: “Who do you say that I am?” and to anticipate the equally contentious query: “How do you say who I am?”The essays together explore the religious imagination through the question of transcendence, using both the age-old Christian imagination and the contemporary world wherein the divisions between religious cultures are less fixed, an age of imaginative permeability where the absence of God is as present as the presence of God.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I CHRISTIAN EUROPE -- 1. The Gospel of Mark as Myth -- 2. An Early Renaissance Guide for the Perplexed: Bernardino of Siena's De inspirationibus -- 3. Between Earth and Heaven: Ignatian Imagination and the Aesthetics of Liberation -- 4. Erasmus, Education, and Folly -- 5. Blind Prophecy: Milton's Figurative Mode in Paradise Lost and in Some Minor Poems -- 6. A Lesson in Reading: George Eliot and the Typological Imagination -- 7. Rouault and the Catholic Revival in France -- 8. A Life of Allegory: Type and Pattern in Historical Narratives -- II INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- 9. A View from the Far Side -- 10. The Tyranny of the Secular Imagination -- 11. Religious Polyphony in the Novels of Nuruddin -- 12. The Social and Political Vision of Sri Aurobindo -- 13. Feminist Providence: Esther, Vashti, and the Duty of Disobedience in Nineteenth-Century Hermeneutics -- 14. The Buddhist Imagination in Chinese Fiction -- 15. "Behind the Curtain": Derrida and the Religious Imagination -- CONTRIBUTORS