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14%OFFGraham Holderness - Re-Writing Jesus: Christ in 20th-Century Fiction and Film - 9781472573315 - V9781472573315
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Re-Writing Jesus: Christ in 20th-Century Fiction and Film

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Description for Re-Writing Jesus: Christ in 20th-Century Fiction and Film Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 374.
At the heart of Christian theology lies a paradox unintelligible to other religions and to secular humanism: that in the person of Jesus, God became man, and suffered on the cross to effect humanity’s salvation. In his dual nature as mortal and divinity, and unlike the impassable God of other monotheisms, Christ thus became accessible to artistic representation. Hence the figure of Jesus has haunted and compelled the imagination of artists and writers for 2,000 years. This was never more so than in the 20th Century, in a supposedly secular age, when the Jesus of popular fiction and film became ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472573315
SKU
V9781472573315
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About Graham Holderness
Graham Holderness is Professor of English at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, author or editor of numerous studies in early modern and modern literature and drama, and General Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Critical Survey. He is also a creative writer, novelist and award-winning poet and his previous books include Nine Lives of William Shakespeare (2010).

Reviews for Re-Writing Jesus: Christ in 20th-Century Fiction and Film
No-one interested in the presentation of Christ in modern fiction and film should miss [this book].
Times Literary Supplement
This book's first part makes an immensely useful contribution to the increasing volume of works covering the interface between theology and film. Taken together with Holderness's own novella, it does demonstrate that it is not only possible but also ... Read more

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