On the Pleromatic

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" On the Pleromatic "
Matthew Creighton

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081911
Doc. No	:	LA125540
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02203002‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Matthew Creighton
Title & Author	:	On the Pleromatic [Article]\ Matthew Creighton
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	22/3
Page No	:	294–315
Abstract	:	This essay meets at the crossroads of religion and literature, insofar as it concerns the extent to which fictional characters can articulate religious viewpoints. The subject here is D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love with particular focus on the novel’s main character, Rupert Birkin. This essay argues that Birkin’s particular worldview, and the source of the strangeness with which it is encountered, is due to its location outside Judeo-Christian frameworks and inside a fundamentally “Gnostic” one. To prove this argument, I first adumbrate essential features of the Gnostic myth and then proceed to show how Birkin both reflects and departs from them. This essay meets at the crossroads of religion and literature, insofar as it concerns the extent to which fictional characters can articulate religious viewpoints. The subject here is D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love with particular focus on the novel’s main character, Rupert Birkin. This essay argues that Birkin’s particular worldview, and the source of the strangeness with which it is encountered, is due to its location outside Judeo-Christian frameworks and inside a fundamentally “Gnostic” one. To prove this argument, I first adumbrate essential features of the Gnostic myth and then proceed to show how Birkin both reflects and departs from them.
Descriptor	:	D. H. Lawrence
Descriptor	:	Gnostic thought
Descriptor	:	novel
Descriptor	:	Religion and Literature
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02203002‬