Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, December 22nd, 1997
Daniel Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe' shows the early 18th-century shift from an emphasis on narrative theology to an interpretive approach. Narrative theology is the practice of reading the Bible as literally and historically factual, and at first Crusoe sees his life only in terms of Biblical stories. By the book's ending, Crusoe is more interested in drawing moral lessons from the Bible while the text is longer the essential means by which Crusoe interprets his life.
Daniel Defoe's three volumes of Robinson Crusoe (1719-20) appeared at a time of great change in biblical hermeneutics. As describ...
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