In this Book
- Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy: Wordsworth, Kant, and the Making of the Post-Christian Imagination
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Baylor University Press
- Series: The Making of the Christian Imagination
A biblical understanding of redemption requires the sacrificial death of Jesus. In the post-Christian world envisioned by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his Enlightenment contemporaries, the Christ-centric source of redemption disappears, though the human need for salvation remains. Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy explores how this need for redemption is realized in the post-Christian poetics of William Wordsworth and philosophical imagination of Immanuel Kant. Simon Haines critiques the secular modes of salvation articulated by each figure to illustrate the shortcomings of modern, post-Christian imagination. Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy highlights the ways in which prose allegedly serves as a redemptive agent for nonbelievers in the modern age, but also engenders dangerous notions of self-redemption in contemporary Christians.
Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-7
- Series Introduction
- pp. vii-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xix-xx
- Introduction
- pp. 1-20
- 3. Spontaneity in Kant and Wordsworth
- pp. 73-132
- Conclusion
- pp. 215-220
- Bibliography
- pp. 237-242