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When the Eternal Can Be Met: The Bergsonian Theology of Time in the Works of C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot, and W. H. Auden

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  • Paperback: 234 pages
  • Publisher: Pickwick Publications (April 14, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1625644213
  • ISBN-13: 978-1625644213
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5.0 out of 5 starsA great piece of scholarship
By Kurt on June 27, 2014
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In his recent book, Latta argues that philosopher Henri Bergson had a large influence upon the theology of time in Lewis, Eliot, and Auden. To date this is the only book that surveys these four interlocutors. Prior to reading Latta’s book, I had never heard of Bergson, which shouldn’t be surprising because Latta mentions how there is a scarcity of work on Bergson, despite his profound influence upon 20th century literature.

In his first chapter Latta writes on the task of theologizing literature in the 20th century. What he means by theologizing literature is “the ability to frame theological truth in such a way that accounts for human experience with the divine” through written works. The three English writers all saw the concept of time “as a way to account for man’s experience with God.” Lewis, Eliot, and Auden witnessed a divorce between the material world and the divine, and this was something that they tried to reestablish. In fact, they “constructed a coherent Christian philosophy that engaged and transformed those [modern] ideas in creative, theologized works about the relation of temporal man to an eternal God.”

In the second chapter Latta presents Bergson’s ideas about time. Bergson’s work pushed back against deterministic naturalism. Among his criticism of Darwinian philosophies, Bergson believed that science was unable to express the concept of duration. Contrary to deterministic, mechanistic explanations, it was through intuition (not intellectual study) that a person could gain knowledge of passing through time. However, the individual exists in two senses (one of a number of “dualisms”): duration (“the consciousness’s most immediate contact with time”) and time, itself (“the symbolic representation of pure duration”).Read more ›
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