{"title":"The Theology of Ecclesiastical Architecture in Geoffrey Hill’s Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin","authors":"Madeleine Potter","doi":"10.1093/litthe/fraa013","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n In Geoffrey Hill's posthumously published Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin, ecclesiastical architecture is explored in close conjunction with historical violence, as its very form is construed as influenced by it. This article argues that Hill's engagement with architecture is informed, at its core, by a theological act of witness to the violence of history, but also as an act of seeking atonement for collective and historical sin.","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":"43 1","pages":"450-464"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2020-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Literature and Theology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/fraa013","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In Geoffrey Hill's posthumously published Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin, ecclesiastical architecture is explored in close conjunction with historical violence, as its very form is construed as influenced by it. This article argues that Hill's engagement with architecture is informed, at its core, by a theological act of witness to the violence of history, but also as an act of seeking atonement for collective and historical sin.
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Literature and Theology, a quarterly peer-review journal, provides a critical non-confessional forum for both textual analysis and theoretical speculation, encouraging explorations of how religion is embedded in culture. Contributions should address questions pertinent to both literary study and theology broadly understood, and be consistent with the Journal"s overall aim: to engage with and reshape traditional discourses within the studies of literature and religion, and their cognate fields - biblical criticism, literary criticism, philosophy, politics, culture studies, gender studies, artistic theory/practice, and contemporary critical theory/practice.