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"Full Consciousness": Passion and Conversion in Adam Bede

"Full Consciousness": Passion and Conversion in Adam Bede "FULL CONSCIOUSNESS": PASSION AND CONVERSION IN ADAM BEDE ROBERT P. LEWIS Marist College [Conversion] has been pawed and fingered by unctuous hands for now near two hundred years. The bloom is gone from the flower. The plumage, once shining with hues direct from heaven, is soiled and bedraggled. The most solemn of all realities have been degraded into the passwords of tech- nical theology. (J. A. Froude, Life of Bunyan. Cited in Strahan 110) Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regenera- tion, the initiation into a new state.... all the intense emotions of the past week made Adam look back on the previous years as if they had been a dim, sleepy existence, and he had only now awaked to full consciousness. (Adam Bede 357) I George Eliot had ingested more than her share of theological formulae as a fervent young Evangelical Anglican and voracious consumer of contemporary sermons, tracts, religious biographies, and polemical novels. In essays like "Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming" and "Worldliness and Other-Worldliness: the Poet Young," composed after her disaffection from orthodox Christianity, she exorcised the maddening glibness of a religious discourse which, as she put it, languished in "the forensic http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Religion and the Arts Brill

"Full Consciousness": Passion and Conversion in Adam Bede

Religion and the Arts , Volume 2 (4): 423 – Jan 1, 1998

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© 1998 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1079-9265
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10.1163/156852998X00304
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"FULL CONSCIOUSNESS": PASSION AND CONVERSION IN ADAM BEDE ROBERT P. LEWIS Marist College [Conversion] has been pawed and fingered by unctuous hands for now near two hundred years. The bloom is gone from the flower. The plumage, once shining with hues direct from heaven, is soiled and bedraggled. The most solemn of all realities have been degraded into the passwords of tech- nical theology. (J. A. Froude, Life of Bunyan. Cited in Strahan 110) Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regenera- tion, the initiation into a new state.... all the intense emotions of the past week made Adam look back on the previous years as if they had been a dim, sleepy existence, and he had only now awaked to full consciousness. (Adam Bede 357) I George Eliot had ingested more than her share of theological formulae as a fervent young Evangelical Anglican and voracious consumer of contemporary sermons, tracts, religious biographies, and polemical novels. In essays like "Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming" and "Worldliness and Other-Worldliness: the Poet Young," composed after her disaffection from orthodox Christianity, she exorcised the maddening glibness of a religious discourse which, as she put it, languished in "the forensic

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