Exploring Christian Literature in the Contemporary and Secular University.
- Author / Editor
- Aers, David, and Thomas Pfau.
Exploring Christian Literature in the Contemporary and Secular University.
- Published
- Christianity and Literature 70.3 (2021): 263-75.
- Description
- Argues that theological modes of inquiry are needed in interdisciplinary approaches to literature that have tended toward secular and "reductive" methodologies. Notes the difficulty of teaching theological modes of inquiry through Chaucer when few students have knowledge of basic Christian theological concepts. Contends that modern graduate schools' focus on poststructuralist theories reduces medieval texts to a single "message" and leads to inaccurate conclusions, such as that Chaucer was a "protodeconstructionist.
- Contributor
- Pfau, Thomas
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism