![]() ![]() Such theological inflections can become problematic in Greene's novels if we do not make a crucial distinction between fiction and doctrine in his works. It is true to say that the glory of man is his capacity for damnation" (23). Eliot, who writes concerning Charles Baudelaire, "it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least, we exist. Greene, however, is more interested in the aesthetic contexts of theology, drawing some of his ideas concerning evil from T. ![]() ![]() At the ending of Brighton Rock, the priest tells Rose, "a Catholic is more capable of evil than anyone" (247). It is a doctrinal sounding theme, and Greene never fails to make its paradoxical nature explicit in his so-called "Catholic" novels. THE epigraph for The Heart of the Matter, "The sinner is at the very heart of Christianity,' refers to Greene's protagonists who have a great capacity for sin and an equal potential for redemption. ![]()
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