Date of Award
Fall 12-2012
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
English
School
Humanities
Committee Chair
Jameela Lares
Committee Chair Department
English
Committee Member 2
Charles Sumner
Committee Member 2 Department
English
Committee Member 3
Damon Franke
Committee Member 3 Department
English
Committee Member 4
Amy Slagle
Committee Member 4 Department
Philosophy and Religion
Committee Member 5
Kate Cochran
Committee Member 5 Department
English
Abstract
C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot, and W. H. Auden all converted to the Christian faith and, upon conversion, turned to the theme of time in their post-conversion works. Interestingly, these Christian authors employed the secular philosophical framework of Henri Bergson’s theory of duration to construct their theologies of time. As texts fostered by Bergson’s ideas of intuition, the dualistic self, and durative force, Lewis’s The Great Divorce, Eliot’sFour Quartets, and Auden’s “Kairos and Logos” are theological works that depict time as an agent.
Copyright
2012, James Corey Latta
Recommended Citation
Latta, James Corey, ""When the Eternal Can Be Met": Bergsonian Time in the Theologies of C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot, and W.H. Auden" (2012). Dissertations. 494.
https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations/494
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