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“Christianity is an epidemic”: on Hölderlin and the plague

Throughout literary history the event of a plague has been an interpretation event typically split into two mutually exclusive stances. On one side, the plague is interpreted as the manifestation of divine punishment (for example, Homer’s Iliad) or, more ambiguously, as a test of faith. On the other...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greenshields, Will
Format: Online Article Text
Language:English
Published: Springer International Publishing 2021
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Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8576791/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11059-021-00606-w