GR 'Streets'

[Terrance]

s~Z wrote:
> 
> >>>Your reading can be supported by the text.
> 
> All the other views I'm reading here can't be.<<<
> 
> All of the other views can be supported by the imagination.

If Christianity wishes to identify the infinite Word and Man of the
literary universe with the Word of God, the person of Christ, the
historical Jesus, the Bible or Church dogma, these identifications may
be accepted by any author or any critic without injury to his work--the
acceptance may even clarify and intensify his work, depending on his
temperament and situation. By they can never be accepted by fiction as a
whole, or by criticism as such. The literary critic, like the historian
is compelled to treat every religion in the same way that religions
treat each other, as though it were a human hypothesis, whatever he may
in other contexts believe it to be.