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_bZ743 1999
245 0 0 _aJohn Updike and religion :
_bthe sense of the sacred and the motions of grace /
_cedited by James Yerkes.
260 _aGrand Rapids, Mich. :
_bW.B. Eerdmans,
_cc1999.
300 _axiii, 290 p. ;
_c24 cm.
505 2 _aBibliography 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
_cDavid Malone --
505 2 _a2. 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 --
505 2 _a3. 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.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 267-278) and index.
600 1 0 _aUpdike, John
_xReligion.
650 0 _aChristianity and literature
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aReligious fiction, American
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aGrace (Theology) in literature.
650 0 _aHoly, The, in literature.
700 1 _aYerkes, James.
596 _a1
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