Article
Hatred between Belief and Faith: Conversion in The End of the Affair and Till We Have Faces
Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture
(2019)
Abstract
What is the difference between intellectual belief and faith? The End of the Affair and Till We Have Faces engage this question through their portrayal of hatred as a midpoint between belief and faith in the conversions of Bendrix, Sarah, and Orual. Each comes to believe in the divine’s existence, but, angered over supernatural interference, each initially distrusts this divine reality. Yet their hatred also exposes the natural selfishness of human love. Thus, the novels imply that the movement from belief to faith requires the convert to learn to love others better through love of the divine.
Keywords
- C.S. Lewis,
- Graham Greene,
- Literature and Theology,
- Theology and Literature,
- Christian Novelists
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring 2019
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/log.2019.0010
Citation Information
Brent Little. "Hatred between Belief and Faith: Conversion in The End of the Affair and Till We Have Faces" Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture Vol. 22 Iss. 2 (2019) p. 39 - 63 ISSN: 1091-6687 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/brent-little/14/