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12. How is the act of literature related to the nature of God?
In what ways does the search for form, unity, variety, and balance derive from and
reflect on God's essential triune nature?
How does the literary act reflect essential unities or disunities in God's creation?
What does the divine-human nature of Jesus reveal about the balance of the spiritual and
material realms in literature?
What does the nature of the Holy Spirit reveal about artistic inspiration and purpose?
What does God's role as the Creator teach us about our own roles as sub-creators?
How does Christ's role as the divine Logos model for us our own use of language, esp.
metaphor?
How does God's creative wisdom model for us in part the purpose of literary study?
How does God's truth partake of and challenge the little truths of literature?
How do God's love and righteousness play a role in the ethics of literature?
How does God's judgment place limits on literary experience?
How can the Church's expression of Christ's mission be exercised in literature?
In what ways can literature be a redemptive practice?
In what ways is the drama of redemption both a tragic and a comic pattern for
literature?
What does God's purpose in history tell us about the study of literary history, culture,
and tradition?
What does God's method of inspiration and the process of hermeneutics teach us about the
values and limits of language and interpretation?
What part does God's glory play in the literary work being a work of beauty?
How does God give purpose and meaning to our artistic acts?
In what sense are the arts a vocation and calling from God?
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