A Quest for the Post-historical JesusIf, as it seems, historical method has given us all that it is capable of giving, and that does not prove to be much, an examination of contemporary fictional treatments of Jesus takes on new interest. So the author here examines twentieth-century Jesus fictions written by novelists, playwrights, poets, from Elizabeth Goudge and Robert Graves to Gore Vidal and A.N. Wilson, from T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden to Stevie Smith. On the way to this central discussion he also considers Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Emily Dickinson from the nineteenth century; theologians like Gerd Theissen, Graham Shaw, J.L. Segundo and Leonardo Boff; and films including Pasolini's "The Gospel according to St. Matthew" and "Jesus of Montreal." |
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Beyond Belief | 1 |
These fragments I have shored against my ruins | 22 |
Graham Shaw and the repudiation of God | 30 |
Copyright | |
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