Kyle Keefer
Autore di The New Testament as Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Sull'Autore
Opere di Kyle Keefer
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Keefer, Kyle
- Data di nascita
- 20th Century
- Sesso
- male
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Recensioni
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- Opere
- 3
- Utenti
- 104
- Popolarità
- #184,481
- Voto
- 3.0
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 8
As Keefer says in this interesting VSI, scholarly interpretations of The New Testament have been around for centuries, and the book has been read by more groups and individuals than any other book ever written. It is not only read for religious reasons by Christians, but also for cross-cultural interfaith understanding, as well as by people of no religion who want to discredit it. But for many, it’s the NT’s place in literature that matters, whether that’s in books with explicitly Christian themes like Paradise Lost or The Pilgrim’s Progress, or books like Ulysses of Absalom, Absalom! that allude to biblical language and themes undogmatically.
Keefer, who is Assistant Professor of Religion in the Bible Belt of the USA, is interested in the intersection of the Bible and the arts, and so am I. Although I don’t have a religious bone in my body I love looking at early religious art, illuminated manuscripts, Russian icons, and stained glass windows. Church architecture is sublime, and the music written for religious purposes by the great composers, is, I think, among the most beautiful that there is. And although I strongly disapprove of monarchies of all kinds, I am inclined to be more tolerant of the dead ones in Europe because, even though they did it for their own aggrandisement, they commissioned such beautiful art works – which (in mature democracies that have abolished the monarchy) are now accessible to the public.
But it is the influence of the Bible in literature that interests me most...
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2017/12/28/the-new-testament-as-literature-a-very-short...… (altro)