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Literature and Religion: A Critical Confluence |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE SACRED AND THE CHALLENGE OF MODERNITY |
| Author: George A. Panichas |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 5,121 Words, 31,666 Characters |
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The contention of some scholars and teachers that the relations between literature and religion have deep critical and educational values has not been exactly popular. In fact, there has been hostility to this view. I remember, not without pain, that when in the early sixties I was scheduled to conduct a seminar dealing with literature and religion, some senior colleagues looked askance at the offering. Some condescendingly pleaded a methodological bias. Others treated my undertaking as an excrescence resulting from the influence of "comparative literature," for which I should in time be forgiven. Still others responded belligerently: one colleague scornfully remarked that I was trying "to play God." Meeting me in the corridor, he would bow solemnly but disdainfully. Even after the ...
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...um for an encounter and, in effect, a conversation with God. Martin Buber captures the full spiritual measure of this intermediation when he writes: "The existence of mutuality between God and man cannot be proved any more than the existence of God. Anyone who dares nevertheless to speak of it bears witness and invokes the witness of those whom he addresses--present or future witnesses." vbcrlf
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