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Literature and Theology Advance Access originally published online on January 19, 2008
Literature and Theology 2008 22(2):162-179; doi:10.1093/litthe/frm053
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Atonement and the Crime of Seeing: Patrick White's, Riders in the Chariot

Gavin D'Costa

University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

Gavin.Dcosta{at}Bristol.ac.uk


  Abstract

Patrick White's ‘religious’ vision in ‘Riders in the Chariot’ is explored. Against readings from a Jewish perspective, a Christian perspective or a secular non-religious perspective, this article proposes an alternative. It suggests that White brings together a synthetic vision in which three religious traditions are affirmed as complimentary—with a new fourth, the artist as religious visionary. In doing so, White respects the deep differences between these traditions while also drawing on an analogical commonality: the redemptive value of suffering and the nature of an unfinished atonement within our lives.


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