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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... secular world, and grace saves the soul through faith, grace—the unmerited love and forgiveness of God that is always available—having important implications for saving the individual self. Among its vast complexities, the Bible ...
... secular causes and solutions, and more importantly, inwardly focused on a defining vision of religious and spiritual faithfulness with regard to African American life. This vision, like the Bible, Christianity, and the African worldview ...
... secular world. In the prologue, the narrator relates events that have already happened, bringing him to his conclusions about modernist reality and black life and the centrality of religious rituals in expressing its indefinable ...
... secular world. The “voice rose and fell in a rhythmical, dreamlike recital—part enumeration of earthly trials undergone by the congregation, part display of vocal virtuosity, part appeal to God” (496). Rinehart's church is an elaborate ...
... secular and spiritual. The attempted prayer leads to “some kinda church song” which becomes blues; Trueblood ... secular life. Utilizing the spiritual along with the secular to touch the truth of the self, which could save Trueblood in ...
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 |