TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yerkes,James
TI  - John Updike and religion: the sense of the sacred and the motions of grace 
SN  - 0802838731 (alk. paper)
AV  - PS3571.P4 Z743 1999
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Grand Rapids, Mich.
PB  - W.B. Eerdmans
KW  - Updike, John
KW  - Christianity and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Religious fiction, American
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Grace (Theology) in literature
KW  - Holy, The, in literature
N1  - 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
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