GRAHAM GREENE의 作品에 나타난 罪와 恩寵 : The Power and the Glory 를 中心으로 = The Theme of Sin & Grace in Graham Greene

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Graham Greene ( 1904- ) has been known as a Catholic novelist. Converted to Catholicism at twenty-two, he has remained staunch in his religious conviction. Greene has demonstrated his ability to use faith as background. Although Catholicism pervades the plots of his Catholic novels, Greene is not concerned in justifying the activities of his religion. Greene chooses to deal with eh sinful, the unlikable, the unhappy-those in whom he feels the strange power of God. His preoccupation is chiefly with the fall of man and with the possibility of redemption.
The Power and the Glory (1910) is Green's representative Catholic novel. Its background is communist Mexico in 1930s. In this thesis. I studied on the Sin and Grace in The Power and the Glory. For further understanding the theme, the whiskey priest's Jesus Christ image was also studied. The priest as scape goat images the high priest, Christ. In imitation of Christ, whose sense of eternal responsibility for others was demonstrated on Calvary, this meek Mexican priest withdraws the claims of self. In enduring sacrificial suffering for others lie becomes Christ-like.
The alternative title to the novel, The Labyrinthine Ways indicates that the priest's flight from God and that the journey he makes is one of recognition. The coward and sinful whiskey priest with bastard child, at last, had come to an understanding of God in the phenomenal world, in having submitter, to the will to God. Alone in his cell while awaiting execution, he discovers that his love for human beings extends only to Brigitta, his evil daughter. And he attempts to bargain with God, offering his damnation for her salvation. He resents the fact that the child who had nothing to do with desiring life is to be damned. He himself is the cause of her evil-he can hate his sin, but he cannot hate the the result of it. As he things of his inability to love all living things, he feels that he has failed God again and that he will approach Him empty-handed. But in his last moments he realizes the enormity of human failings, and his tears are those of genuine contrition. But God's grace comes down to him through his contrition to break the chain of sin.
The priest does not go to God empty-handed. He leaves the impression of his heroism on three hearts -- the child Coral ; the boy Luis ; the dentist Mr. Tench, and he also shows the lieutenant the possibility of salvation.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서론
• Ⅱ. Graham Greene 의 生涯와 作品들
• Ⅲ. The Power and the Glory 에 나타난 罪와 恩寵
• ⅰ. 作品의 背景 및 槪觀
• ⅱ. 그리스도 이미지로서의 Whiskey Priest를 통해서 본 罪와 恩寵
• Ⅳ. 결론
• 참고문헌