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Best Essay in a Sophomore Core Literature Course, 2008-2009
"God, War, and Morality in God is Dead" by
Robert Barnes (click here
to read the essay, © Robert Barnes)
Professor Bernard Schweizer's Citation:
Robert Barnes's essay "God, War, and Morality in God is
Dead" is a superbly clear and intelligent elucidation of
a challenging, complex text. He maturely engages the deeper implications
of the text, rather than simply passing judgment on the brazen blasphemy
of a story in which God literally dies in Sudan and then is eaten
by a pack of feral dogs, who promptly become new objects of fanatical
worship. Robert sheds a revealing light on the paradoxical presence
of biblical allusions in this apparently anti-theistical text, and
he deftly explains the author's social and political vision. Robert's
advanced critical skills are evidenced in many lucid and engaging
interpretive statements and in an overall thematic cohesion and
rhetorical progression that makes his essay a real pleasure to read.
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