{"id":5104,"date":"2021-04-04T22:49:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T03:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5104"},"modified":"2021-04-04T22:49:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T03:49:06","slug":"maverick-philosopher-on-updikes-seven-stanzas-at-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2021\/04\/04\/maverick-philosopher-on-updikes-seven-stanzas-at-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Maverick Philosopher on Updike’s Seven Stanzas at Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"

This time of year John Updike’s poem “Seven Stanzas at Easter”<\/a> is often reprinted and just as often pondered.<\/p>\n

The most recent to tackle the poem is the Maverick Philosopher<\/strong>, who is listed among The Times <\/em>of London’s 100 Best Blogs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Bill Vallicella (aka Maverick Philosopher) writes, “Given what we know from yesterday’s<\/a>\u00a0Updike entry, the suspicion obtrudes that, while Updike clearly understands the Resurrection as orthodoxy understands it, his interest in it is merely\u00a0aesthetic<\/em>\u00a0in Kierkegaard’s sense, and not\u00a0ethical<\/em>\u00a0in the Dane’s sense, which suspicion comports well with the charge that Updike radically divorced Christian theology from Christian ethics.<\/p>\n

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“Or perhaps, as a Protestant, Updike thinks that since God in Christ did all the work of atonement, he needn’t do anything such as reform his life and struggle and strive for metanoia but can freely enjoy himself in the arms and partake of the charms of other men’s wives. \u00a0Am I being fair?”<\/p>\n

Is he?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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