Roland Frye
Roland Mushat Frye (born July 3, 1921 in Birmingham — died January 20, 2005 in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania) was a theologian and scholar of English literature.
Frye was born in Birmingham. 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.
After the war, Frye taught at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He joined the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C., but missed teaching. 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.
Frye was awarded the Thomas Jefferson Award by the American Philosophical Society. He was a Presbyterian elder.
Publications
- Frye, Roland (1955) The Teachings of Classical Puritanism on Conjugal Love.
- Frye, Roland (1961) Perspective on Man - Literature and the Christian Tradition. Westminster Press.
- Frye, Roland (1963) Shakespeare and Christian Doctrine. Princeton University Press.
- Frye, Roland (1965) The Bible: Selections from the King James Version for Study as Literature. Houghton Mifflin.
- Frye, Roland (1965) The Reader's Bible, A Narrative. Princeton University Press.
- Frye, Roland (1967) Shakespeare's Life and Times: A Pictorial Record. Princeton University Press.
- Frye, Roland (1972) God, Man, and Satan: Patterns of Christian Thought and Life in Paradise lost, Pilgrim's Progress, and the Great Theologians.
- Frye, Roland (1978) Milton's Imagery and the Visual Arts: Iconographic Tradition in the Epic Poems. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691063494
- Frye, Roland (1982) Shakespeare: The Art of the Dramatist. Routledge. ISBN 0415352894
- Frye, Roland, ed. (1983) Is God a Creationist?: The Religious Case Against Creation-Science. Scribner. ISBN 0023395605
- Frye, Roland (1984) The Renaissance Hamlet: Issues and Responses in 1600. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691065799
- Frye, Roland (1988) Language for God and Feminist Language: Problems and Principles.
References
- Pelikam, Jaroslav J. (June 2006) "Roland Mushat Frye". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 150, No. 2