Dismissing God

by Lockerbie, D. Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780801058042
• ISBN10: 080105804X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-07-01
• Publisher: Baker Pub Group

Summary

For many writers God is a stranger, if not dead -- Christian readers encounter this all too often. In Dismissing God, D. Bruce Lockerbie explores the role of unbelief and disbelief in the lives of leading writers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Author Biography

D. Bruce Lockerbie served thirty-five years in teaching and administration at the Stony Brook School in New York.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 9
Acknowledgments	p. 10
Introduction	p. 11
The Ebb Tide of Faith: Matthew Arnold	p. 17
The Abdication of Belief: Emily Dickinson	p. 34
The Self as American Messiah: Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson	p. 51
Uncomfortable Unbelief: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville	p. 70
"Nature's Abominable Injustice and Indifference": Stephen Crane	p. 91
Halley's Comet and the Mysterious Stranger: Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Mark Twain	p. 110
Eluding the Hound of Heaven: The English Neo-Pagans	p. 128
"A Dyed and Figured Mystery": Thomas Hardy and William Butler Yeats	p. 146
"...A Heretic and Immoral Too": James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence	p. 167
The Lost Generation: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway	p. 184
"Our Nada Who Art in Nada": The Nihilists	p. 205
"When Disbelief Has Gone": After the Holocaust	p. 225
Afterword	p. 245
Notes	p. 247
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