Disruptive Narratives of Jesus

Feuerbach and Ricoeur in Dialogue

Authors

  • Catherine Caufield Athabasca University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v44i3.27732

Keywords:

phenomenological philosophical hermeneutics, religion and literature, Christianity, Jesus, literature and philosophy

Abstract

An exploration of ideas of Jesus expressed in five works of narrative fiction: Nikos Kazantazkis’s The Last Temptation of Christ, Vicente Leñero’s Gospel According to Lucas Gavilán, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, by José Saramago, “The grand Inquisitor” in Fyodor Dostoyevski’s The Brothers Karamazov, and D.H. Lawrence’s short story “The man who died.” This exploration is conducted in dialogue with Feuerbachian perspectives, to which the voices of the hermeneuts Ricoeur and Valdés are brought into conversation regarding diverse ways that meaning is incarnated.

Author Biography

  • Catherine Caufield, Athabasca University

    Catherine Caufield holds a doctorate in Religious Studies from the Centre for the Study of Religion in the University of Toronto. She has received a number of awards, including a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto and a Foreign Government Award with the Government of Mexico. She taught at the University of Alberta from 2002-2013 where she served in the Faculty of Nursing and the Faculty of Art’s Religious Studies Program and Latin American Studies Programs. Dr. Caufield coordinated the International Research Capacity-Building Program for Nurses to Study the Drug Phenomenon in the Americas, a program hosted by the Faculty of Nursing and funded by the Organization of American States. Her research areas of interest are hermeneutic literary theory and the expression of religion in contemporary local and global sociopolitical contexts. She has published numerous articles in referred journals, as well as the book Hermeneutical Approaches to Religious Discourse in Mexican Narrative. Her second monograph, Jewish Mexican Neomysticism, is currently in production at an academic press.

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Caufield, Catherine. 2000. “The Influence of Liberation Theology and the Lucan Hypertext on the Fate of Jesucristo Go?mez In Vicente Len?ero’s El evangelio de Lucas Gavila?n.” Hispanic Journal 21: 527–48.

Dostoyevski, Fyodor. 1976. “The Grand Inquisitor.” In The Brothers Karamazov. Translated by Constance Garnett. Edited by Ralph Matlaw. New York: Norton.

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Lawrence, D. H. 1934. “The Man Who Died.” In The Tales of D. H. Lawrence, 1098–138. London: Martin.

Len?ero, Vicente. 1979. El evangelio de Lucas Gavila?n. Me?xico, D.F.: Seix Barral.

Ricoeur, Paul. 1991. “The Function of Fiction in Shaping Reality.” In A Ricoeur Reader: Reflection and Imagination, edited by Mario J. Valde?s, 116–36.Toronto: University of Toronto.

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Published

2015-09-07

Issue

Vol. 44 No. 3 (2015)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Caufield, C. (2015). Disruptive Narratives of Jesus: Feuerbach and Ricoeur in Dialogue. Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 44(3), 26-35. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v44i3.27732