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- Title
"Some—are like My Ow—-": Emily Dickinson's Christology of Embodiment.
- Authors
Harde, Roxanne
- Abstract
Circa 1859, poet Emily Dickinson wrote a poem that set forth the issues that would preoccupy her religious writing for the rest of her life. Poem 128 details Dickinson's conflicted view of her Christianity, she is tied to the Church's language and narrative, but its views of God and immortality terrify and anger her, and presents in a condensed form the shape of her lifelong theological explorations. Writing in a critical and ironic manner of studied carelessness, this article both anticipates and negates the Calvinist understanding of predestination and heaven. Poem 128, discloses Dickinson's lifelong examination of religion in a body of work that foreshadows the concerns of today's Christian feminist theologians.
- Subjects
PREDESTINATION; POETRY (Literary form); DICKINSON, Emily, 1830-1886; POETS; HEAVEN; CHRISTIANITY; IMMORTALITY of the soul; FEMINISM
- Publication
Christianity & Literature, 2004, Vol 53, Issue 3, p315
- ISSN
0148-3331
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1177/014833310405300302