Bóg i szatan. Kontrowersyjna wizja wiary chrześcijańskiej w Listach z ziemi Marka Twaina

• Authors: Anna Rój

Title variants

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God and Satan. A controversial vision of the Christian faith in Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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This article focuses on the differences in the perception of the Christian faith and its main dogmas included in the Bible, referring to the controversial concept of religiosity and commentaries on biblical texts included in Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain. The author of this work, using Satan’s voice, presents his own malicious – but also humorous – view of God-Creator, Satan and man created in God’s image. Twain reveals the contradictions connected with God’s law confronting it with the biblical law of nature, and points out the paradoxes connected with eternal life in paradise. He presents the creation of the world and man as a kind of scientific experiment, or even “a slide show” to heavenly creatures, where the Creator turns out to be a passive observer. The article discusses two points of view regarding the perception of the Bible and faith: Christian and that presented by Twain.

Keywords

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MARK TWAIN; BIBLE; GOD; SATAN; FAITH; MAN

• Publisher: Bialystok University Press
• Journal: Archeus. Studia z bioetyki i antropologii filozoficznej
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 14
• Pages: 155-163

Contributors

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Anna Rój

• mgr Anna Rój, ul. Prosta 6, 33–113 Zgłobice