This text examines the character of Don Quixote, the book describing his fictional exploits, and their implications in the theological realm as well as in the fictive, using Gonzalez and Maldonado's definition of theology as "la explicacion de la realidad cosmica" ["the explanation of cosmic reality"], including the identity and nature of God. The first chapter examines the implications of the basin-helmet in El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de La Mancha, in context with the historical and theological developments of the end of the sixteenth century. The second chapter looks first at the...
This text examines the character of Don Quixote, the book describing his fictional exploits, and their implications in the theological realm as well a...