TY - BOOK ID - 77885392 TI - The holy fool PY - 2003 SN - 1282861441 9786612861444 0773571418 9780773571419 9781282861442 9780773526051 0773526056 6612861444 PB - Montreal Ithaca McGill-Queen's University Press DB - UniCat KW - Lenz, Jakob Michael Reinhold, KW - Lenz, Reinhold, KW - Lenz, J. M. R. KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Religion. KW - RELIGION / Christian Theology / General. KW - Lenz, Jakob Michael Reinhold KW - Reinhold-Lenz, Jacob Michael KW - Lenz, Reinhold UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77885392 AB - Previous studies have viewed Lenz's religion as a largely pathological phenomenon that was linked to the temporary lapses into insanity that he experienced after he was banished, at Goethe's insistence, from the court and city of Weimar. Pope reveals, however, that a dynamic shift in Lenz's faith had occurred four years before the debacle of Weimar. Coherent statements during those four years concerning the articles of his new faith, and a consistent application of faith to questions of poetry and dramatic theory, indicate that Lenz's contribution to the literary revolution of the 1770s was conditioned as much by a personal religious renewal as by enthusiasm for the aims and ideals of his generation. Theologically, Lenz's new convictions followed a path that led away from the neology of the late Enlightenment and pointed not only back to conservative traditions but also forward to the Christology of more modern times. ER -