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Faith, humor, and paradox

Götz proposes that there is no opposition between faith and humor, belief and laughter. The tragic and the comic are sisters, as Aristotle saw in antiquity.On the other side,Götz shows what happens when faith and humor depart from paradox: faith becomes dogmatic and fanatical, and humor becomes superficial and banal.
Print Book, English, 2002
Praeger, Westport, Conn., 2002
Wit and Humor
136 pages ; 25 cm
9780275978952, 0275978958
50339374
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Faith and paradox
Faith and paradox : cases
Faith, hope, and unbelief
Faith, dogma, and fanaticism
The structure of humor
On frivolity
Humor and faith