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With Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante, William Franke reexamines the role that literature plays in theological revelation. In the modern world, secularism typically means the exclusion of God from the world. Yet Franke, recognizing that secularity itself is built into religion and revelation, argues that theologically sensitive poetry has driven secularization throughout the modern period. The essays in this volume construct a trajectory through modern poetic literature as it struggled with the sense of a loss of the very possibility of theological revelation. Can literature replace religion? Can it do so triumphantly or only mournfully? Is this literary transmogrification of revelation the death of religion or its rebirth in a vital new form?

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Secular Scriptures
• Subtitle: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante
• Author: William Franke
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270
• EAN: 9780814251973
• ISBN: 9780814251973
• ID: 01030779
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Weight: 399 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. November 2016

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