著者

阿久根 政子

出版者

久留米信愛女学院短期大学

雑誌

久留米信愛女学院短期大学研究紀要 (ISSN:13487310)

巻号頁・発行日

no.39, pp.1-10, 2016-07-01

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Two great authors, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, were influenced greatly by Dickens and spoke of him as that great Christian writer. But like so many Victorian writers, he was not conspicuously devout. He was reticent on the subject of religion, but we can let an earnest letter which he wrote to the Reverend D. Macrae speak for him. ... . All my strongest illustrations are drawn from the New Testament: all my social abuses are shown as departures from its spirit: all my good people are humble, charitable, faithful, and forgetting. I cream them in express words as disciples of the Founder of our religion ... In his work, he puts a religious emphasis on the New Testament rather than on the Old, on Christ rather than on Jehovah. First of all, this study is to show the base of the his faith through his itineracy of his Christianity, and secondly to examine the relationship his religious beliefs and the Bible through his works, his letters and his will. Finally I view from the Bibles role as allusion in A Christmas Carol.