{"product_id":"sacred-and-secular-scriptures-nicholas-boyle-9780268021801","title":"Sacred and Secular Scriptures: A Catholic Approach to Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eNicholas Boyle's latest work begins with an observation--from theologian and medievalist Father Marie-Dominique Chenu, O.P.--that the Bible should be seen as a divinely ordained mediation between human culture and divine truth. But how far can we say that the Bible is 'literature'? Chenu is surely right that God is revealed in Scripture not through a system of ideas, but through a vivid historical narrative of people and places. But the Bible is also a sacred book. Expanding on this central dilemma, Boyle demonstrates that biblical scholarship and literary criticism must work together in the largely neglected task of integrating theology and modern secular culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoyle explores two lines of thought. In the first series of essays, he discusses a range of writers, primarily philosophers and theologians, who have treated the Bible as literature as a means of reconciling the sacred and the secular. In the second series, Boyle moves to the theme of literature as Bible, seeking a Catholic way of reading secular literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese sophisticated and learned essays--drawn from the Erasmus Lectures Boyle delivered at the University of Notre Dame in 2003--cover a remarkable range of philosophers, theologians, and writers, including Herder, Schleiermacher, Hegel, L騅inas, Goethe, Austen, Melville, and Tolkien. This volume will reward its reader with penetrating, and often brilliant, insights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicholas Boyle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0268021805\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268021801\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.60w x 0.51d","brand":"Nicholas Boyle","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913526182143,"sku":"9780268021801","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_780d8144-7d6e-4a9b-9ce6-304f205bc950.jpg?v=1680620853","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sacred-and-secular-scriptures-nicholas-boyle-9780268021801","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}