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John Updike and religion : the sense of the sacred and the motions of grace /

John Updike and religion : the sense of the sacred and the motions of grace / edited by James Yerkes. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, c1999. - xiii, 290 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-278) and index.

Bibliography of Citation Sources and Updike Criticism -- Earthworm / John Updike -- Remarks upon Receiving the Campion Medal / John Updike -- 1. Updike and the Religious Dimension. As Good as It Gets: The Religious Consciousness in John Updike's Literary Vision / James Yerkes -- The Obligation to Live: Duty and Desire in John Updike's Self-Consciousness / Avis Hewitt -- The Pocket Nothing Else Will Fill: Updike's Domestic God / James A. Schiff -- When Earth Speaks of Heaven: The Future of Race and Faith in Updike's Brazil / Dilvo I. Ristoff -- Updike 2020: Fantasy, Mythology, and Faith in Toward the End of Time 2. Updike and the Christian Religion. An Umbrella Blowing Inside Out: Paradoxical Theology and American Culture in the Novels of John Updike / Kyle A. Pasewark -- What Is Goodness? The Influence of Updike's Lutheran Roots / Darrell Jodock -- Writing as a Reader of Karl Barth: What Kind of Religious Writer Is John Updike Not? / Stephen H. Webb -- The World and the Void: Creatio ex Nihilo and Homoeroticism in Updike's Rabbit Is Rich / Marshall Boswell -- Learning to Die: Work as Religious Discipline in Updike's Fiction / Wesley A. Kort -- 3. Updike and American Religion. Faith or Fiction: Updike and the American Renaissance / Charles Berryman -- Giving the Devil His Due: Leeching and Edification of Spirit in The Scarlet Letter and The Witches of Eastwick / James Plath -- Guru Industries, Ltd.: Red-Letter Religion in Updike's S. / Judie Newman -- Chaos and Society: Religion and the Idea of Civil Order in Updike's Memories of the Ford Administration / George S. Diamond -- The World as Host: John Updike and the Cultural Affirmation of Faith / Donald J. Greiner.

0802838731 (alk. paper)

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Updike, John--Religion.


Christianity and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Religious fiction, American--History and criticism.
Grace (Theology) in literature.
Holy, The, in literature.

PS3571.P4 / Z743 1999

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