The Missing Kingdom: Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory and the Sermon on the Mount in St. Matthew's Gospel

Authors

  • Ryan Jeffrey Pederson The University of Texas at Brownsville

Keywords:

Graham Greene, St. Matthew, Kingdom of God

Abstract

Critics who engage the religious aspects of Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory tend to focus on the status of the Whiskey Priest's orthodoxy in relation to the Roman Catholic Church.  However, by reading Greene's novel along side the Sermon on the Mount from St. Matthew's Gospel the reader discovers a different way of seeing the novel's two primary charcters.  Instead of seeing the Whiskey Priest and the Lieutenant as being diametrically opposed to one another, the concepts of the Kingdom of God from the Sermon on the Mount enables the reader to see these two as doubles, as deeply flawed saints.

Author Biography

  • Ryan Jeffrey Pederson, The University of Texas at Brownsville
    Ryan Pederson is a graduate student in the English department at the Univeristy of Texas at Brownsville.
Red Rock Canyon, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2013

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Published

2013-07-13

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2013): Conference Issue -- Revolution

Section

Critical Articles

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