神学与文学“顿悟”

Theology and Literary Epiphany

金容希(Sharon Kim) ； 柳博赟

《基督教文化學刊》 20期 (2008/12) Pp. 131-146

並列摘要

Modernist writer James Joyce first used the word ＂epiphany＂ to describe a moment in which an everyday object or scene suddenly becomes radiant with revelation. For Joyce, it is the purpose of art to record such secular epiphanies, which also play a crucial role in the formation of the aesthetic consciousness. Literary scholars have identified epiphany as an important modality not only of Joyce's fiction but of modernist fiction in general as well as an important principle of nineteenth-century lyric poetry. While a few critics have noted the relation of literary epiphany to Catholic theology concerning the incarnation, transubstantiation, and Thomistic theories of beauty, my lecture will outline a separate theological genealogy in Protestant teaching concerning divine grace. Such theology strongly influenced the development of the genre of spiritual autobiography, which later shaped both Wordsworth's poetry and the English and American novel, aesthetic forms that provided the context for modernist epiphany.

並列關鍵字

epiphany ； literary ； theological genealogy ； Protestant teaching