Endgame
The Genesis of More’s The Sadness of Christ
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20145927 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Seymour Baker House (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 45 (Number 174) |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 33-54 |
| Publication date | 2008-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Moreana (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-8105 • E-ISSN: 2398-4961 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/more.2008.45.2.5 |
| OpenAlex | W2520394381 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This paper locates the genesis of More’s The Sadness of Christ to his understanding that by late spring, 1535 he faced martyrdom. It tracks the striking shift in both genre and dominant metaphor from the Dialogue of Comfort to the Tristitia, and uses More’s letters (and a return to the legal and political maneuvers of his case) to provide a helpful telemetry in accounting for those shifts. Additionally, it argues that because More chose to interpret his situation in terms of Christ’s struggle in Gethsemane, he saw his martyrdom as part of the timeless Christian struggle to bear faithful witness. The Sadness becomes a dialogue between reason and fear as it traces the final working out of More’s decision to suffer death for his conscience and his record of that process as his last gift to those who would follow
Aesthetics · Anger · Art · Chess endgame · Chose · Conscience · Epistemology · Grief · Literature · Metaphor · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sadness · Theology · Witness · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2016 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |