Modernism, Christianity and apocalypse / edited by Erik Tonning, Matthew Feldman, David Addyman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tonning, Eric, editor.

Feldman, Matthew, editor.

Addyman, David, editor.

Series:

Studies in religion and the arts ; Volume 8.

Studies in Religion and the Arts, 1877-3192 ; Volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Christian theology).

Apocalyptic literature--History and criticism.

Apocalyptic literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse stages an encounter between the fields of ‘Modernism and Christianity’ and ‘Apocalypse Studies’. The modernist impulse to ‘make it new’, to transform and reform culture, is an incipiently apocalyptic one, poised between imaginative representations of an Old Era or civilization and the experimental promise of the New. Christianity figures in formative tension with the ‘new’, but its apocalyptic paradigms continued to impact modernist visions of cultural revitalization. In three sections tracing a rough chronology from the late nineteenth century fin de siècle, via interwar conflicts and the rise of ‘political religions’, to post-1945 anxieties such as the Bomb, this thematic is explored in nineteen far-ranging scholarly contributions, outlining a distinctive and fresh interdisciplinary field of study.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Erik Tonning , Matthew Feldman and David Addyman

Introduction / Erik Tonning

Versions of the Wasteland: The Sense of an Ending in Theology and Literature in the Modern Period / Paul S. Fiddes

The Cup of Suffering: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Discipleship and German Expressionism / Jacob Phillips

Christian Prehistories of Literary Modernism in G.K. Chesterton and Allen Upward / Suzanne Hobson

Modernist Anti-Modernists: T.E. Hulme, “Spilt Religion” and “The Religious Attitude” / Henry Mead

Between the Bang and the Whimper: Eliot and Apocalypse / Katherine Ebury

Ezra Pound’s Eriugena: Eschatology in the Periphyseon and the Cantos / Mark Byron

Péguy’s Apocalypse / Brian Sudlow

The Reason of Nature: Revolution of Principles Around 1900 / Hans Ottomeyer

Nazi Modernism and the Mobilisation of Christian Artists in the Third Reich / Gregory Maertz

James Strachey Barnes and the Fascist Revolution: Catholicism, Anti-Semitism and the International New Order / Paul Jackson

“Till Armageddon, No Shalam, No Shalom”: Ezra Pound and the Consecration of Politics in the Italian Press During WWII / Andrea Rinaldi

The Moot, the End of Civilisation and the Re-Birth of Christendom / Jonas Kurlberg

Old Dogmas for a New Crisis: Hell and Incarnation in T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden / Erik Tonning

Apocalypse Deferred: W.H. Auden’s Anti-Totalitarian Vision / Hedda Lingaas Fossum

Ezra Pound’s Political Faith from First to Second Generation; Or, “It is 1956 Fascism” / Matthew Feldman

“Of What Disaster Is this the Imminence”: “The Auroras of Autumn” and the Christian Apocalypse / Benjamin Madden

“History is Done”: Thomas Merton’s Figures of Apocalypse / Mary Bryden

Apocalypse in Early UFO and Alien-Based Religions: Christian and Theosophical Themes / Carole M. Cusack

The Apocalyptic Social Imaginary / Malise Ruthven

Index / Erik Tonning , Matthew Feldman and David Addyman.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-28228-9

OCLC:

899010172