Towards a Christian Literary Theory

Defining Christian doctrine as those Roman Catholic beliefs from which the major Protestant and Eastern Orthodox communities do not dissent, Ferretter (English, U. of Cambridge, UK) seeks to establish a critical literary theory whose interpretations and judgments derive from consistency with Christian doctrine. He first argues for the legitimacy of such a project, contending that despite the rejection of truth-claims by deconstruction, Marxism, and psychoanalysis, all theories must make a fundamental choice about the nature of reality, albeit in a context of uncertainty. He then constructs a Christian literary theory that incorporates some characteristic insights of its three aforementioned competitors. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR