Making of the Christian Imagination – serie
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Year at the Catholic Worker
A Spiritual Journey Among the Poor
Häftad, 2000
405 kr
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Sixty-six years ago the Catholic Worker movement began with the opening of a shared aprtment as a house of hospitality and the selling of the Catholic Worker newspaper for a penny a copy in Union Square. It began amidst the Great Depression with millions out of work and the foundation of American …
Dostoevsky
Language, Faith, and Fiction
Häftad, 2011
709 kr
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Rowan Williams explores the intricacies of speech, fiction, metaphor, and iconography in the works of one of literature's most complex, and most complexly misunderstood, authors. Williams' investigation focuses on the four major novels of Dostoevsky's maturity ( Crime and Punishment , The Idiot , …
Chesterton
The Nightmare Goodness of God
Häftad, 2023
441 kr
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G. K. Chesterton is often praised as the "Great Optimist"—God's rotund jester. In this fresh and daring endeavor, Ralph Wood turns a critical eye on Chesterton's corpus to reveal the beef-and-ale believer's darker vision of the world and those who live in it. During an age when the words grace, …
Devil As Muse
Blake, Byron, and the Adversary
Av Fred Parker
Häftad, 2022
441 kr
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Does the Devil lie at the heart of the creative process? In The Devil as Muse, Fred Parker offers an entirely fresh reflection on the age-old question, echoing William Blake's famous statement: "the true poet is of the Devil's party." Expertly examining three literary interpretations of the Devil …
Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy
Wordsworth, Kant, and the Making of the Post-Christian Imagination
Av Simon Haines
Häftad, 2023
682 kr
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A biblical understanding of redemption requires the sacrificial death of Jesus. In the post-Christian world envisioned by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his Enlightenment contemporaries, the Christ-centric source of redemption disappears, though the human need for salvation remains. Redemption in Poetry …
George MacDonald
Divine Carelessness and Fairytale Levity
Häftad, 2023
441 kr
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The Scottish poet, author, and Christian minister George MacDonald is widely known as an inspiration for the works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Lewis Carroll, among others. Nineteenth century photographs of MacDonald present a forbidding visage, embodying Victorian-era solemnity. Yet …
Betjeman
Writing the Public Life
Inbunden, 2010
799 kr
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A household name in Great Britain, John Betjeman was a public literary figure who openly declared his Christian faith and championed the social and aesthetic joys of Anglicanism as unique to English identity. Through poetry in newspapers and on radio and television broadcasts, Betjeman celebrated …
Novel As Church
Preaching to Readers in Contemporary Fiction
Inbunden, 2013
434 kr
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Reading the likes of Updike, Dickens, and Faulkner with a preacher's eye, David Dickinson offers an instructive examination of the role of the sermon as a literary element and, most strikingly, of literature as a modern sermon. Popular perceptions of religion, religious authority, and the practice …
