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Chesterton - Ralph C. Wood

Chesterton

The Nightmare Goodness of God

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Buch | Softcover
277 Seiten
2023
Baylor University Press (Verlag)
978-1-60258-441-9 (ISBN)
CHF 54,90 inkl. MwSt
G.K. Chesterton is often praised as the 'Great Optimist' - God’s rotund jester. In this fresh and daring endeavour, Ralph Wood turns a critical eye on Chesterton’s corpus to reveal the beef-and-ale believer’s darker vision of the world and those who live in it.
G. K. Chesterton is often praised as the "Great Optimist"—God's rotund jester. In this fresh and daring endeavor, Ralph Wood turns a critical eye on Chesterton's corpus to reveal the beef-and-ale believer's darker vision of the world and those who live in it. During an age when the words grace, love, and g ospel, sound more hackneyed than genuine, Wood argues for a recovery of Chesterton's primary contentions: First, that the incarnation of Jesus was necessary reveals a world full not of a righteous creation but of tragedy, terror, and nightmare, and second, that the problem of evil is only compounded by a Christianity that seeks progress, political control, and cultural triumph.

Wood's sharp literary critique moves beyond formulaic or overly pious readings to show that, rather than fleeing from the ghoulish horrors of his time, Chesterton located God's mysterious goodness within the existence of evil. Chesterton seeks to reclaim the keen theological voice of this literary authority who wrestled often with the counterclaims of paganism. In doing so, it argues that Christians may have more to learn from the unbelieving world than is often supposed.

Ralph C. Wood is University Professor of Theology and Literature Emeritus at Baylor University. He is the author of Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South and Literature and Theology.

Introduction
1. Man as Holy Monster: Christian Humanism, Evolution, and Orthodoxy
2. Patriotism and the True Patria: Distributism, Hymns, and Christendom in Dublin
3. Militarism and the Church Militant: Lepanto, Defense of World War I, and "The Truce of Christmas"
4. The Waning of the West and the Threat of Islam: The New Jerusalem and The Flying Inn
5. Tyrannical Tolerance and Ferocious Hospitality: The Ball and the Cross
6. The Bane and Blessing of Civilization: Torture, Democracy, and The Ballad of the White Horse
7. The Nightmare Mystery of Divine Action: The Man Who Was Thursday

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie The Making of the Christian Imagination
Verlagsort Waco
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 272 g
Themenwelt Religion / Theologie Christentum Gebete / Lieder / Meditationen
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-60258-441-9 / 1602584419
ISBN-13 978-1-60258-441-9 / 9781602584419
Zustand Neuware
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