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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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