Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy

by Simon Haines

A biblical understanding of redemption requires the sacrificial death of Jesus. In the post-Christian world envisioned by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his Enlightenment contemporaries, the Christ-centric source of redemption disappears, though the human need for salvation remains. Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy explores how this need for redemption is realized in the post-Christian poetics of William Wordsworth and philosophical imagination...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1602587809
• ISBN13: 9781602587809
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"