Scott Dill sku-595590893 A Theology of Sense Hardcover

Scott Dill's hardcover A Theology of Sense: John Updike, Embodiment, and Late Twentieth-Century American Literature, sku-595590893, is listed under Christian Books & Bibles. Dill examines how Updike, a figure in post-1945 American literature who died in 2009, writes about the body, the senses and theology.

Each chapter considers one of the five senses alongside questions of affect, subjectivity, ontology, ethics or theology. Drawing on Updike's stories, novels, poems and essays and placing them alongside other late twentieth-century American writing, Dill argues for a postsecular account of aesthetic experience.

He connects Updike's attention to sense experience with the doctrine of creation and asks readers to consider its theological dimension.