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- Title: Speaking with the "Tongues of Men and of Angels": Addressing Human Conflict Through Christian Charity in the Short Fiction of Herman Melville.
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 303 KB
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Speaking with the "Tongues of Men and of Angels": Addressing Human Conflict through Christian Charity in the Short Fiction of Herman Melville A report from the 2007 Pew Global Attitudes Project notes that "in a world where the ties that bind are, in some ways, stronger than ever ... the differences that divide are growing deeper...." (1) The origins of such divisions--and of global religious conflict in particular-are complex, necessitating a multifaceted solution. Christianity teaches that one of the most effective ways to foster positive human relationships is through charity. In Corinthians, Apostle Paul articulates three of the central tenets of Christian belief: "Now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." (2) Paul maintains, "though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal." (3) Paul's exhortation may provide a key to ameliorating human strife in the world today, but charity can assume many guises, sometimes exacerbating the very suffering it is designed to alleviate. Herman Melville metaphorically addresses this paradox in his scathing satire The Confidence-Man but more directly in his short fiction, especially "Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs," "The Two Temples," and "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street."