This book brings Christian theology, creative literature, and literary critical theory into dialogue on the theme of 'the end'.
About the Author
Paul S. Fiddes is Principal of Regent's Park College in the University of Oxford, and a University Research Lecturer in Theology. He is the author of a number of books and articles, including The Creative Suffering of God (1988), Past Event and Present Salvation: The Christian Idea of Atonement (1989), and Freedom and Limit: A Dialogue Between Literature and Christian Doctrine (1991).
Features
* Brings Christian theology, creative literature, and literary critical theory into dialogue on the theme of 'the end'. * Provides an exegesis of novels, plays, and poems by such writers as John Fowles, Julian Barnes, Doris Lessing, Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and Shakespeare.
* Considers the ideas of critical theorists such as Frank Kermode, Northrop Frye, Jacques Derrida, and Paul Ricoeur. * Examines the main themes of Christian eschatology. * Offers a critical view of the doctrines of the last things produced by major modern theologians.
