Mind Of The Maker

by Sayers, Dorothy L.

• ISBN13: 9780826476784
• ISBN10: 0826476783
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-17
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Dorothy L Sayers' great lay contemporaries in the Church of England were T. S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams, but none of them wrote a book quite like The Mind of the Maker. In this crisp, elegant exercise in theology, Sayers illuminates the doctrine of the Trinity by relating it to the process of writing fiction, a process about which she could speak with complete authority. She illustrates her thesis with many examples drawn from her own books, and even illuminates the Christian heresies by analysing certain failures of creation which regularly occur in literature. This marvellous classic describes the creative process in terms of the arts and shows that literature can cast light on theology and vice versa.

Table of Contents

The "laws" of nature and opinion	p. 1
The image of God	p. 15
Idea, energy, power	p. 25
The energy revealed in creation	p. 37
Free will and miracle	p. 49
The energy incarnate in self-expression	p. 69
Maker of all things - maker of ill things	p. 75
Pentecost	p. 87
The love of the creature	p. 101
Scalene trinities	p. 119
Problem picture	p. 145
Postscript : the worth of the work	p. 177
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