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Coleridge and Christian Doctrine

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Long established as a major poet and critic of the Romantic era, Samuel Taylor Coleridge is now becoming recognized as one of the first and most original modern religious thinkers. In 1815 he wrote...
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  • 01 January 1987
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Long established as a major poet and critic of the Romantic era, Samuel Taylor Coleridge is now becoming recognized as one of the first and most original modern religious thinkers. In 1815 he wrote the Biographia Literaria, and from that time on there was in his writings a noticeable shift to nonliterary subjects, especially religion. Using all available sources in the U.S., Canada, and England, J. Robert Barth, S.J., has found Coleridge’s religious speculations in his notebooks, in such works as Aids to Reflection and Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, in letters, in the unpublished manuscript of his “Opus Maximum,” in marginalia, and in conversations recorded by his nephew in Table Talk. Father Barth has synthesized these theological ideas and shaped Coleridge’s scattered and constantly developing religious thoughts into a coherent pattern.
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Price: $43.00
Pages: 215
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Imprint: Fordham University Press
Publication Date: 01 January 1987
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780823211944
Format: Paperback
BISACs: RELIGION / Christianity / History
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...an invaluable guide to a difficult and hitherto unanalyzed area of Coleridge's thought.

...Barth's book, with great clarity, organizes Coleridge's views of Christian doctrine...the entire book balances learning and compassion...---—Harold Bloom, Studies in English Literature

Father Barth's...distinguished study adds significantly to our understanding and appreciation of the range and acuity of Coleridge's mind...---—Criticism

“Excellent and indispensable for Coleridgeans.”

...Every serious student of Coleridge must read Coleridge and Christian Doctrine.
J. Robert Barth, S.J. is James P. McIntyre Professor of English at Boston College and is author of several books, including Coleridge and Christian Doctrine and co-editor of The Symbolic Imagination: Coleridge and the Romantic Tradition.