Lawrence's Religious Thought in The Man Who Died

Abstract

The Man Who Died는 Lawrence가 예수의 죽음과 부활의 스토리를 자신의 종교적 이상에 부합되게 개작한 것으로, 가장 노골적이고도 완벽하게, 또 가장 아름답게 Lawrence의 종교관을 밝혀 보여주는 작품이다.

흔히 Lawrence의 종교관은 기독교와의 관련하에서, 또 바로 자신이 인간과 삶에 대해 지닌 doctrine과의 관련하에서 가장 명백하고 의미있게 드러난다고 말하여진다. 이런 근거로 본 논문은 우선 1장에서 Lawrence의 종교적 신념과 기독교와의 관련을 밝히고, 2장에서 ?陋? 지닌 생의 doctrine의 이원성에 대해 언급하고, 이런 1,2장의 작업을 바탕으로 3장에서 The Man Who Died를 다루고 있다.

이 과정을 통해 우리가 얻게 되는 결론은, 간단히 말해서, Lawrence는 인간의 삶 뿐만 아니라 종교에 있어서도 그 자체에 내재하고 있는 두 대립적 요소간에 조화가 이루어져야 한다고 주장하고 있으며, 바로 이 궁극적인 조화, 즉 그의 God the Father와 인간을 이어주는 가장 근원적이고도 일차적인 관계가 남-녀 관계라는 의미에서 이 남-녀 관계의 중요성을 역설하고 있다는 것이다.

The purpose of this paper is to study Lawrence's religious thought revealed in The Man Who Died. This novella is the work in which Lawrence fictionalizes his creed the most directly, perfectly, and beautifully though rewriting the story of death and resurrection of jesus.

It can be said that Lawrence's religious idea is most clearly and meaningfully revealed in its relationship with Christianity and in the very light of his doctrine of man and reality. For this reason, this paper studies, first of all, the relationship between Lawrence's creed and Christianity in part I, and then his doctrine of man and reality in part Ⅱ, and finally The Man Who Died itself in part Ⅲ.

The conclusion this paper comes to about Lawrence's religious idea is, in short, that Lawrence believes the balance between the two opposite principle both in man and religion and he also believes the importance of the man-woman relationship as the primary way to the ultimate balance, God the Father.

The purpose of this paper is to study Lawrence's religious thought revealed in The Man Who Died. This novella is the work in which Lawrence fictionalizes his creed the most directly, perfectly, and beautifully though rewriting the story of death and resurrection of jesus.

It can be said that Lawrence's religious idea is most clearly and meaningfully revealed in its relationship with Christianity and in the very light of his doctrine of man and reality. For this reason, this paper studies, first of all, the relationship between Lawrence's creed and Christianity in part I, and then his doctrine of man and reality in part Ⅱ, and finally The Man Who Died itself in part Ⅲ.

The conclusion this paper comes to about Lawrence's religious idea is, in short, that Lawrence believes the balance between the two opposite principle both in man and religion and he also believes the importance of the man-woman relationship as the primary way to the ultimate balance, God the Father.