The Charge of God: Laudato Si’ read through Chesterton, Wordsworth, and Hopkins

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dc.creatorHurley, Michael D
dc.date2023-08-14T08:25:49Z
dc.date2023-08-14T08:25:49Z
dc.date2023-11-03
dc.date.accessioned2026-08-03T02:04:24Z
dc.descriptionAbstract G. K. Chesterton, William Wordsworth, and Gerard Manley Hopkins are set in conversation with Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’ (2015), to show how far those writers anticipate its animus against technocratic capitalism, but also, more surprisingly, how far Laudato Si’ challenges the progressive assumptions of contemporary eco-activism. Chesterton, Wordsworth, and Hopkins do not merely foreshadow and clarify the theological stakes of a papal document. By making even single words expressive of a whole worldview (achieving what William Empson called a ‘compacted doctrine’), their writings prove more imaginatively affective, as well as more theologically adequate than the communicative formalities available to the theological treatise as a genre.
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dc.identifier0269-1205
dc.identifierhttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/354349
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.100198
dc.identifier1477-4623
dc.identifier.urihttps://repo.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/163236
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherOxford University Press (OUP)
dc.publisherFaculty of English
dc.publisherhttps://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frad021
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject5005 Theology
dc.subject50 Philosophy and Religious Studies
dc.titleThe Charge of God: Laudato Si’ read through Chesterton, Wordsworth, and Hopkins
dc.typeArticle

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