When the Eternal Can Be Met: The Bergsonian Theology of Time in the Works of C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot, and W. H. Auden - Softcover

Latta, Corey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1625644213 ISBN 13: 9781625644213

Verlag: Pickwick Publications, 2014

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When the Eternal Can Be Met excavates the philosophy behind the theology of the twentieth century's most prominent Christian writers: C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot, and W. H. Auden. These three literary giants converted to Christianity within little more than a decade of one another, and interestingly, all three theological authors turned to the theme of time. All three authors also came to remarkably similar conclusions about time, positing that the temporal present moment allowed one to meet the eternal. Decades before Lewis, Eliot, and Auden sought to creatively construct a fictive or poetic theology of time, the prominent philosopher Henri Bergson wrote about time's power to transform an individual's emotional and spiritual state, a theory well known by Lewis, Eliot, and Auden. When the Eternal Can Be Met argues that one cannot fully understand Lewis, Eliot, and Auden's theology of time without understanding Bergson's theories. From the secular philosophy of Bergson dawned the most important works of literary theology and treatments of time of the twentieth century, and in the Bergson-influenced literary constructs of Lewis, Eliot, and Auden, a common theological articulation sounds out-time present is where humans meet God.

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Corey Latta is currently Vice President of Academics at Visible Music College in Memphis, TN. He is the author of Election and Unity in Paul's Epistles to the Romans (2009) and Functioning Fantasies: Theology, Ideology, and Social Conception in the Fantasies of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien (2010).

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• Verlag: Pickwick Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1625644213
• ISBN 13: 9781625644213
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 234
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