Description
A biblical understanding of redemption requires the sacrificial death of Jesus. In the post-Christian world envisioned by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his Enlightenment contemporaries, the Christ-centric source of redemption disappears, though the human need for salvation remains. Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy explores how this need for redemption is realized in the post-Christian poetics of William Wordsworth and philosophical imagination of Immanuel Kant. Simon Haines critiques the secular modes of salvation articulated by each figure to illustrate the shortcomings of modern, post-Christian imagination. Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy highlights the ways in which prose allegedly serves as a redemptive agent for nonbelievers in the modern age, but also engenders dangerous notions of self-redemption in contemporary Christians.
Author: Simon Haines
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 08/01/2013
Pages: 269
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.36w x 1.03d
ISBN13: 9781602587793
ISBN10: 1602587795
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Religion | Christianity | Literature & the Arts
- Poetry | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
About the Author
Simon Haines is Professor and Chair of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.