Unimaginable Variations: Christian Responsibility in the Cinema of Broken Identity
This paper addresses the combination of theology and humanism by reflecting on Christian identity. Beginning with Paul Ricoeur's theory of fiction as a laboratory of ‘imaginative variations’ on the possibilities of ethical selfhood, I ask: if the world projected by the Christian scriptures over...
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2004
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Literature and theology
Year: 2004, Volume: 18, Issue: 3, Pages: 321-350 |
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