Roland Frye
Roland Mushat Frye (July 3, 1921 – January 13, 2005) was an American English literature scholar and theologian.
Roland Frye | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 3, 1921 |
| Died | January 13, 2005 |
| Awards | Thomas Jefferson Award |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Princeton University[1] |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | English literature and theology |
| Institutions | |
Career
Frye was born in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1943 he interrupted his studies to enlist in the United States Army and fought at the Battle of the Bulge, winning a Bronze Star.[1]
After the war, Frye taught at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and joined Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. as a research professor in residence. He returned to teaching in 1965, accepting a professorship at Penn. He was Schelling Professor of English Literature University of Pennsylvania from 1965 until his retirement in 1983. In 1978, he co-founded the Center of Theological Inquiry, an independent institution sponsored by the Princeton Theological Seminary.[1]
Frye was awarded the Thomas Jefferson Award by the American Philosophical Society.[1] The American Philosophical Society also awarded him both the "Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities" in 1989 and the "John Frederick Lewis Prize" in 1975. He was a Presbyterian elder.[1]
Frye was an opponent of creationism. He was the editor of Is God a Creationist?: The Religious Case Against Creation-Science which was positively reviewed in The Quarterly Review of Biology as an "excellent refutation of the creationist's claim to speak for orthodox religion."[2]
In 2021, Professor Frye's son published a 350-page biography of his father. Renaissance Man: A Personal Biography of Roland Mushat Frye (Opus Publ.; www.politics-prose.com).
Publications
- Milton's Imagery and the Visual Arts: Iconographic Tradition in the Epic Poems
- Is God a Creationist?: The Religious Case Against Creation-Science
- God, Man and Satan: Patterns of Christian Thought and Life in "Paradise Lost", "Pilgrim's Progress" and the Great Theologians
- The Renaissance Hamlet: Issues and Responses in 1600
- Shakespeare: The Art of the Dramatist
- Shakespeare and Christian Doctrine
- The Reader's Bible - a Narrative - Selections from The King James Version
- Shakespeare's Life and Times: A Pictorial Record
- Perspective on Man - Literature and the Christian Tradition
- Language for God and Feminist Language: Problems and Principles
- The Teachings of Classical Puritanism on Conjugal Love
References
- "Obituary: Roland Mushat Frye". Shakesper: the Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference. 26 January 2005. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
- Glass, Bentley. (1984). Reviewed Work: Is God a Creationist? The Religious Case Against Creation-Science by Roland Mushat Frye. The Quarterly Review of Biology 59 (4): 455.