The Divine Face in Four Writers: Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Hesse, and C. S. Lewis
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (960 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501333968 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Maurice Hunt explores both the human yearning to see the divine face from post-Apostolic time to the 20th century, as reflected in religion, myth, and literature by writers such as Augustine, Shakespeare, Hardy and Dostoyevsky, as well as the significance of the hidden divine face in writings by Spenser, Milton, Hesse, and Lewis. Lewis. An important contribution to studies in literature and religion, The Divine Face in Four Writers traces the influence of Christian and Classical prototypes in ideas and depictions of the divine face, and the centrality of f
I came away from this book with a new recognition of an important motif in Western religious and cultural history. It is an impressive achievement.James Hirsh, Professor of English, Georgia State University, USA . I also came away with a deeper understanding of the psychology of religious belief. Maurice Hunt demonstrates that a great many diverse works of a religious and secular nature have represented face-to-face encounters between human beings and gods or between human beings and their fellow human beings in order to convey religious or ethical ideas
He is the author of ten books, including Shakespeare's Romance of the Word (1990), Shakespeare's Labored Art: Stir, Work, and the Late Plays (1995), Shakespeare's Religious Allusiveness (2004), and Shakespeare's Speculative Art (2011). Maurice Hunt is Research Profess