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Theological Anthropology and the Great Literary Genres: Understanding the Human Story

Theological Anthropology and the Great Literary Genres: Understanding the Human Story

Jensen, Michael P.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 1978706391
ISBN13: 9781978706392
Publisher: Fortress Academic
Published: Aug 23 2019
Pages: 212
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The storytelling impulse lies very deep within human cultures; indeed, it is fundamental to the very concept of human culture itself. What, then, is humankind, according to the great story types of tragedy, epic, and comedy? What do each of these genres say about us, and what transcends us? Building on critical discussions of the great genres of the Western literary tradition, Michael P. Jensen argues that each of these genres contains a theo-anthropology--a theological understanding of the human creature. He then shows how questions of identity, purpose, and destiny are addressed within each genre, concluding that human existence is a storied nature shaped by the various literary forms that have fostered human cultural imagination. These genres provide crucial keys to vital anthropological and theological questions when put in conversation with Christian theology; as Jensen shows, the Christian story, the gospel, shares many observations about the human condition with the great genres, but offers a different sense of ending.

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