http://vox-nova.com/2009/04/14/quote-of-the-week-john-updike/ Catholic perspectives on culture, society, and politics Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:19:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://vox-nova.com/2009/04/14/quote-of-the-week-john-updike/#comment-52699 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:57:09 +0000 http://vox-nova.com/?p=6702#comment-52699 Dostoevsky had some strange ideas about resurrection, inspired by a pseudo-scientist called Fyodorov, whom Tolstoy, Solovyev and Berdyaev also befriended and admired: http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/04/dostoevsky-and-resurrection.html

]]> http://vox-nova.com/2009/04/14/quote-of-the-week-john-updike/#comment-52698 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:55:23 +0000 http://vox-nova.com/?p=6702#comment-52698 I have some remarks on Updike’s poem at http://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/04/the_resurrectio.html

]]> http://vox-nova.com/2009/04/14/quote-of-the-week-john-updike/#comment-52697 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:53:42 +0000 http://vox-nova.com/?p=6702#comment-52697 This poem is being quoted too often. It represents a fundamentaism of Updike in the early 1960s, a fundamental tinged by skepticism (IF the resurrection did not happen in a literalistic sense, IF there was not a real angel rolling back a real stone, then…) which he outgrew later. For his mature, critical view on the resurrection narratives you should read the novel “Roger’s Version”.

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