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When the Eternal Can Be Met: The Bergsonian Theology of Time in the Works of C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden
Corey Latta
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When the Eternal Can Be Met excavates the philosophy behind the theology of the twentieth century's most prominent Christian writers: C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot, and W.H. Auden. These three literary giants converted to Christianity within little more than a decade of one another, and interestingly, all three theological authors turned to the theme of time. All three authors also came to remarkably similar conclusions about time, positing that the temporal present moment allowed one to meet the eternal. The prominent philosopher Henri Bergson wrote about time's power to transform an individual's emotional and spiritual state decades before Lewis, Eliot, and ... Read more
When the Eternal Can Be Met excavates the philosophy behind the theology of the twentieth century's most prominent Christian writers: C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot, and W.H. Auden. These three literary giants converted to Christianity within little more than a decade of one another, and interestingly, all three theological authors turned to the theme of time. All three authors also came to remarkably similar conclusions about time, positing that the temporal present moment allowed one to meet the eternal. The prominent philosopher Henri Bergson wrote about time's power to transform an individual's emotional and spiritual state decades before Lewis, Eliot, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Lutterworth Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780718893606
SKU
V9780718893606
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About Corey Latta
Corey Latta is currently Vice President of Academics at Visible Music College in Memphis, TN. He is the author of 'Election and Unity in Paul's Epistles to the Romans' (2009) and 'Functioning Fantasies: Theology, Ideology, and Social Conception in the Fantasies of C.S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien' (2010).
Reviews for When the Eternal Can Be Met: The Bergsonian Theology of Time in the Works of C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden
"A daring venture.. Latta's ambitious attempt to locate Lewis more clearly within the 20th century has much of interest." - Brian Murdoch, Literature and Theology, Volume 31, Issue 3, September 2017