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The God of Love
“My single constancy is love of life.”
In a letter dated 22 April 1914, D. H. Lawrence wrote, “But primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.” Throughout his body of work, he attempts to change his reader’s outlook on Christianity and seeks a more life-affirming form of worship. In his two-part tale The Man Who Died, Lawrence remodels the character of Christ to illustrate the importance of his “single constancy” by giving us a portrait of what he calls “The Risen Lord,” one who abandons the mission of being the God of Love in order to experience “the actual vital touch.”
Click to read the rest of “The God of Love,” an essay on D. H. Lawrence’s The Man Who Died and its connection to Sir James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough.
