Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American FictionLSU Press, 2006 - 264 pages "This is a marvelous and sustained discussion of 'faithful vision' and its significant influence on African American literature." -- American Literature |
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... Gabriel does not want, yet he nevertheless fulfills God's promise in spite of what Gabriel does; similarly, despite her intentions, Angela's actions contribute to Abeba's divinely planned life. The novel's view (which is ultimately its ...
... Gabriel, “ain't no shelter against the Word of God, is there, Reverend? You is just got to be in it, that's all—'cause every word is true, and the gates of Hell ain't going to be able to stand againstit” (100). From the novel's ...
... Gabriel's powerlessness is not the question here. In the more domestic realm, in which he can be compared with Gabriel, he has six sons by six different women, thirteen sons by Bathsheba, one daughter, and unspecified children by ...
... Gabriel's interior life where he contemplates God and his own deeds with a biblical voice that reveals his seriousness about doing God's will and being saved. For he desired in his soul, with fear and trembling, all the glories that his ...
... Gabriel's selfish, destructive actions mean in the larger, unknowable scheme of existence. Perhaps the text is least ambiguous about Gabriel's relationship to Esther; however, this portrayal remains complex and contradictory.9 Gabriel ...
Contents
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03 Critiquing Christian Belief | 77 |
04 Rejecting God and Redefining Faith | 118 |
05 Reshaping and Radicalizing Faith | 156 |
Fiction Life and Faitful Vision | 197 |
Notes | 205 |
Bibliography | 233 |
Index | 245 |
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Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in ... James W. Coleman No preview available - 2009 |