RT Article
T1 The Charge of God: "Laudato Si'" read through Chesterton, Wordsworth, and Hopkins
JF Literature and theology
VO 37
IS 3
SP 216
OP 240
A1 Hurley, Michael D. 1976-
LA English
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1869711890
AB G. K. Chesterton, William Wordsworth, and Gerard Manley Hopkins are set in conversation with Pope Francis’s Laudato Si' (2015), to show how far those writers anticipate its animus against technocratic capitalism, but also, more surprisingly, how far Laudato Si' challenges the progressive assumptions of contemporary eco-activism. Chesterton, Wordsworth, and Hopkins do not merely foreshadow and clarify the theological stakes of a papal document. By making even single words expressive of a whole worldview (achieving what William Empson called a "compacted doctrine"), their writings prove more imaginatively affective, as well as more theologically adequate than the communicative formalities available to the theological treatise as a genre.
K1 G.K. Chesterton
K1 William Wordsworth
K1 Gerard Manley Hopkins
K1 Laudato Si'
K1 Ecocriticism
K1 Posthumanism
DO 10.1093/litthe/frad021