Freedom and Limit: A Dialogue between Literature and Christian Doctrine [Hardcover]

If imagination is understood to be a human response to the self-revelation of God, what practical results might this have for the work both of literary criticism and theology? Both theologians and creative writers find human existence to be characterised by basic tension between freedom and limit, which accounts for a sense of 'fallenness', and which a dialogue between literature and Christian doctrine can do much to illuminate. Such a dialogue is worked out in studies of the poetry of William Blake and Gerard Manley Hopkins, and the novels of D.H. Lawrence, Iris Murdoch and William Golding.General Editor's Preface - FOUNDATIONS - Imagination and Revelation - The Creative Dialogue - The Shape of the Story - Comedy and Tragedy: the Shakespearean Boundary - HOLDING THE DIALOGUE - William Blake and the Image of the City - Gerard Manley Hopkins and Mortal Beauty - D.H. Lawrence: Agape and Eros - Iris Murdoch and Love of the Truth - William Golding and the Human Darkness - In Conclusion - Notes - IndexPAUL S. FIDDES