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Daniel Defoe’s fictional narrators talk often about God’s providence but not usually to appeal to an overarching social or natural order, to solve problems of theodicy, or to claim special divine attention. In the Bible scene near the beginning of Defoe’s novel Journal of the Plague Year (1722), a passage of scripture opened to by chance convinces the narrator, H.F., to stay in London and protect his business during the plague. This scene primes Defoe’s readers to recognise later in the novel divine providence acting not through so much as with creaturely agents, human and nonhuman.
丹尼尔·笛福虚构的叙述者经常谈论上帝的天意，但通常不会诉诸于压倒一切的社会或自然秩序，来解决神正论的问题，或要求特别的上帝关注。在笛福的小说《瘟疫年日记》(Journal of the Plague Year, 1722)开头的圣经场景中，偶然打开的一段经文说服了叙述者h.f.在瘟疫期间留在伦敦保护他的生意。这个场景让笛福的读者认识到，在小说的后面，神的旨意并不是通过生物的媒介，人类和非人类来发挥作用的。
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Literature and Theology, a quarterly peer-review journal, provides a critical non-confessional forum for both textual analysis and theoretical speculation, encouraging explorations of how religion is embedded in culture. Contributions should address questions pertinent to both literary study and theology broadly understood, and be consistent with the Journal"s overall aim: to engage with and reshape traditional discourses within the studies of literature and religion, and their cognate fields - biblical criticism, literary criticism, philosophy, politics, culture studies, gender studies, artistic theory/practice, and contemporary critical theory/practice.
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