A faithful analysis
Madness- A multifaceted approach
A Faith-full Analysis “The onus is on us to find a language that moves us beyond faith, because faith is the negation of the intellect. Faith supplies belief in preference to inquiry, in place of skepticism, in place of dialectic, in place of the disorder and anxiety and struggle that is required in order to claim that the mind has any place in these things at all.” - Christopher Hitchens.
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Within the context of Anne Sexton’s “The Jesus Papers”, Sam Harris’s “The End of Faith”, and the film Jesus Camp (directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, Magnolia films), varrying positions on the dispute of faith and religion are represented.
1. Anne Sexton "The Jesus Papers," a sequence of nine varrying portraits of Jesus before, during, and after his life, represents Sexton's struggle to understand and overall consternation with Religious ideology. Sexton's version of Jesus is a physically realized being completely detached from any sense of the divine. however, his role as an intercessionary figure between humanity and it's understanding of the divine marks him as holding an intriguingly similar position to that of the poet. a Tangible sign of the possibility of the divine, the figure of Jesus has become an eternal symbol for belief, a byword for all such possibility. Christ then, as a mortal individual and as a metephorical entity, resonates with the potential of both the poet and the poem, a hieroglyph to the possibility of himself, divine and a symbol of that divinity. as the language of belief in the divine and , at one and the same time, the divine as well, jesus bothe speaks of and is the essence of the Absolute. He resonates as the ultimate poetic incarnation that, in indicating an access route to the essence of language, is simultaneously part of that essence, both the means of and the end of poetic inquiry. If God is the Word, the absolute source of language, alpha, omega, and infinity combined, Jesus is the
A Faith-full Analysis “The onus is on us to find a language that moves us beyond faith, because faith is the negation of the intellect. Faith supplies belief in preference to inquiry, in place of skepticism, in place of dialectic, in place of the disorder and anxiety and struggle that is required in order to claim that the mind has any place in these things at all.” - Christopher Hitchens.
Where
Within the context of Anne Sexton’s “The Jesus Papers”, Sam Harris’s “The End of Faith”, and the film Jesus Camp (directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, Magnolia films), varrying positions on the dispute of faith and religion are represented.
1. Anne Sexton "The Jesus Papers," a sequence of nine varrying portraits of Jesus before, during, and after his life, represents Sexton's struggle to understand and overall consternation with Religious ideology. Sexton's version of Jesus is a physically realized being completely detached from any sense of the divine. however, his role as an intercessionary figure between humanity and it's understanding of the divine marks him as holding an intriguingly similar position to that of the poet. a Tangible sign of the possibility of the divine, the figure of Jesus has become an eternal symbol for belief, a byword for all such possibility. Christ then, as a mortal individual and as a metephorical entity, resonates with the potential of both the poet and the poem, a hieroglyph to the possibility of himself, divine and a symbol of that divinity. as the language of belief in the divine and , at one and the same time, the divine as well, jesus bothe speaks of and is the essence of the Absolute. He resonates as the ultimate poetic incarnation that, in indicating an access route to the essence of language, is simultaneously part of that essence, both the means of and the end of poetic inquiry. If God is the Word, the absolute source of language, alpha, omega, and infinity combined, Jesus is the