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Conclusion

from Part III - Uses of Scripture for Fiction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2021

Kevin Seidel
Affiliation:
Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia
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I set out in this book to step away from two paths of thinking about the relationship between the religious and the secular. The first envisions the religious and the secular as perpetual rivals: always in competition, each claiming against the other a total comprehension of reality. Contenders for theology or science often argue with one another this way. C. S. Lewis did, for example, in an Oxford Socratic Club address entitled “Is Theology Poetry?” when he said, “Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religions. The scientific point of view cannot fit in any of these things, not even science itself. I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else” (Weight 141).

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Rethinking the Secular Origins of the Novel
The Bible in English Fiction 1678–1767
, pp. 258 - 261
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Conclusion
  • Kevin Seidel, Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia
  • Book: Rethinking the Secular Origins of the Novel
  • Online publication: 16 March 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108867290.011
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  • Conclusion
  • Kevin Seidel, Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia
  • Book: Rethinking the Secular Origins of the Novel
  • Online publication: 16 March 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108867290.011
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  • Conclusion
  • Kevin Seidel, Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia
  • Book: Rethinking the Secular Origins of the Novel
  • Online publication: 16 March 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108867290.011
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