LIT 333. . . NOT REL 333: Jesus as a literary event?

Taylor, Victor E. 2016. LIT 333. . . NOT REL 333: Jesus as a literary event? JOMEC Journal 10 , pp. 99-107. 10.18573/j.2016.10090

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Abstract

The ‘literary Jesus’ is a fluid figure, which means that he is a literary creation not solidified by tradition, orthodoxy, or dogma. Authors from D.H. Lawrence to José Saramago have reshaped, re-contoured, and transformed Jesus into an array of subject positions, with each literary articulation relating to mythology, philosophy, and politics. Teaching Jesus as a literary event allows students to take overly familiar religious discourses and traditional understandings of Jesus and rethink them in terms of other conceptual possibilities, possibilities that open up conversations about the creative literary imagination.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) L Education > L Education (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Comedy; Jesus; Literature; Parallax
Publisher:	Cardiff University Press
ISSN:	2049-2340
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	26 January 2017
Date of Acceptance:	1 December 2016
Last Modified:	23 May 2023 11:11
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/97773

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