T. S. 엘리엇의 신학사상 = T. S. Eliot’s Theological Thought

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The main purpose of this article is to draw a map for the accurate understanding of T. S. Eliot’s theological thought by closely examining recent studies on this agenda, which include Spur’s “Anglo-Catholic in Religion”: T. S. Eliot and Christianity (2010), T. S. Eliot and Christian Tradition (2014), Domestico’s Divine Cartographies (2016), and Soud’s Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period (2017). Instead of merely summarizing the content of these critical works, the article seeks to objectively revaluate them and, thereby, serve as a stepping stone for more advanced study on Eliot as a theological thinker. Spur’s monograph, which provides the first detailed analysis of Anglo-Catholicism’s lasting impact on Eliot’s Christian thought, tends to look into Eliot’s works too narrowly with the ‘fixed eyes’ of its doctrinal principles, especially Incarnation. T. S. Eliot and Christian Tradition, though illuminating the influence of French Catholic writers and the Neo-Thomism, which has been heretofore ignored, in general overlooks the importance of Karl Barth and other Protestant theologians in shaping Eliot’s theological thought. Despite an insightful account of Eliot’s growing interest in Barth’s Neo-Orthodoxy, Domestico fails to locate it accurately on the map of Eliot’s Christian thought. Unlike Domenisco, Soud delves into the traces of Barth’s theology in Eliot’s Four Quartets, yet this painstaking excavation, without persuasive analysis, falls into the mechanical juxtaposition of two thinkers.

참고문헌 (Reference)

1 Spurr, Barry, "“Anglo-Catholic in Religion”: T. S. Eliot and Christianity" Lutterworth Press 2010

2 Eliot, T. S., "The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry" Harcourt 1993

3 Eliot, T. S., "The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot" Faber 1973

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5 Lockerd, Benjamin G., "T. S. Eliot and Christian Tradition" Fairleigh Dickinson UP 2014

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11 Eliot, T. S, "Revelation" Faber 1937

12 Domestico, Anthony, "Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period" Johns Hopkins UP 2017

13 Soud, W. David, "Divine Cartographies: God, History, and Poesis in W. B. Yeats, David Jones, and T. S. Eliot" Oxford UP 2016

14 Eliot, T. S., "Christianity and Culture: The Idea of a Christian Society and Notes towards the Definition of Culture" Mariner Books 1977