Is religion necessarily a form of fantasy, a superstitious childishness we should have put aside by now? If so, what takes the place of empty heaven? May idle dreams threaten secular moralities as much as they threaten religion? If so, are there authentic forms of religion as well as authentic forms of morality which transcend these threats? These central issues are explored philosophically by the author with reference to twentieth century literature.
Is religion necessarily a form of fantasy, a superstitious childishness we should have put aside by now? If so, what takes the place of empty heaven? May idle dreams threaten secular moralities as much as they threaten religion? If so, are there authentic forms of religion as well as authentic forms of morality which transcend these threats? These central issues are explored philosophically by the author with reference to twentieth century literature.
Preface - Introduction: Marches of Vocabulary (T.S.Eliot) - PART 1: SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW - Down the Yellow Brick Road (L.Frank Baum) - Emptying Heaven (Wallace Stevens) - Priests of Our Time (Dennis Potter and Nathanael West) - After Empty Heaven (Wallace Stevens and Dennis Potter) - Charitable Untruths (Philip Larkin) - PART 2: UNDER A GODLESS SKY - Following Rules (Luigi Pirandello) - Only Words? (Samuel Beckett) - Distorting Truth (Caradoc Evans) - The Shortest Way Home (Joan Didion) - Mental Gymnastics (Tom Stoppard) - A Place Without Qualities (Franz Kafka) - Meaning What We Say (Alice Monro) - PART 3: HEROES OF THE HORIZON - Of Fishers and Men (Ernest Hemingway) - Kill or Be Killed (Isaac Babel) - One Priest, Two Sermons (Albert Camus) - PART 4: UNDER GOD'S HEAVEN - Who's Who (Barbara Pym) - Displaced Persons (Edith Wharton) - Beyond the Call of Duty (Elie Wiesel) - Revealing the Hidden (R.S.Thomas) - A Realism of Distances (Flannery O'Connor) - Index
Preface - Introduction: Marches of Vocabulary (T.S.Eliot) - PART 1: SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW - Down the Yellow Brick Road (L.Frank Baum) - Emptying Heaven (Wallace Stevens) - Priests of Our Time (Dennis Potter and Nathanael West) - After Empty Heaven (Wallace Stevens and Dennis Potter) - Charitable Untruths (Philip Larkin) - PART 2: UNDER A GODLESS SKY - Following Rules (Luigi Pirandello) - Only Words? (Samuel Beckett) - Distorting Truth (Caradoc Evans) - The Shortest Way Home (Joan Didion) - Mental Gymnastics (Tom Stoppard) - A Place Without Qualities (Franz Kafka) - Meaning What We Say (Alice Monro) - PART 3: HEROES OF THE HORIZON - Of Fishers and Men (Ernest Hemingway) - Kill or Be Killed (Isaac Babel) - One Priest, Two Sermons (Albert Camus) - PART 4: UNDER GOD'S HEAVEN - Who's Who (Barbara Pym) - Displaced Persons (Edith Wharton) - Beyond the Call of Duty (Elie Wiesel) - Revealing the Hidden (R.S.Thomas) - A Realism of Distances (Flannery O'Connor) - Index
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