...Caroline Walker Bynum Barbara Newman, God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), 432 pp. Duke University Press 2006 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Robert Mills, Suspended Animation...

...Santiago Zabala Duke University Press 2005 Sym p osium: Talking Peace with God s, Part 2 CHRISTIANITY AND THE DEATH OF GOD A Response to Cardinal Lustiger Santiago Zabala Cardinal Lustiger is among the most thoughtful members...

...Matthew Mutter Eagleton Terry , Culture and the Death of God . ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2014 ), 214 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

...Francis X. Clooney, SJ emphases here and below).here and emphases No one wouldlook to my (these are supernatural” the and real the between bridge the . seeks tuality spiri . Theological humanity. to relation God’s and personal of God existence theology by expressed...

...G. W. Bowersock Jenkyns Richard , God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination . ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2013 ), 407 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

... of unrestrained and incoherent sexual indulgence.” These women, however, “know what love is,” namely “the touchstone of a true or a false spirituality,” and each of them finds a means of “telling God.” Sappho Marguerite Porete Simone Weil decreation women’s spirituality Copyright © 2002 Duke...

...Francis X. Clooney, SJ; Jeffrey M. Perl Hart David Bentley , The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2013 ), 365 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

...Jack Miles Burt Robert A. , In the Whirlwind: God and Humanity in Conflict ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2012 ), 382 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Pierre Bouretz...

...Caroline Walker Bynum Kevin J. Madigan and Jon D. Levenson, Resurrection: The Power of God for Christians and Jews (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008), 304 pp. Duke University Press 2010 Little Reviews Mark S. Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country...

...Anne Carson Duke University Press 2002 DECREATION How Women Like Sappho, Marguerite Porete, and Simone Weil Tell God Anne Carson This is an essay about three women and will have three parts. Part One concerns...

..., tightly controlled handwriting with his erstwhile friend Wagner s flowing screed that evoke the time and place of a great event in Nietszche s life and confirm the charm of this project. Lesley Chamberlain doi 10.1215/0961754X-7900096 Alexandra Sofroniew, Household Gods: Private Devotion in Ancient...

...Susan Stephens López-Ruiz Carolina , When the Gods Were Born ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2010 ), 302 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Amy Knight Powell, Depositions: Scenes from the Late Medieval Church...

...Isabelle Stengers Latour Bruno , On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods , first chapter trans. Porter Catherine and MacLean Heather ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2010 ), 168 pp. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011...

... the characters, words, and names of God’s own language in March 1582 (sometimes at seven hours at Little Reviews a stretch), only for it to emerge that His language conformed to no known rules of grammar, syntax, or pronunciation, and that Dee would not actually be able to utter it until...

... in face of the natural world. As an Anglican minister, White explicitly demonstrates the arguments of eighteenth-century natural theology. Having stilled his will to interfere, he can observe the activity of God's creations; and White does so in order to understand God better. Thus, White's desisting...

...G. R. Evans Quietism brought the individual to a state of “holy indifference” where nothing mattered; particularities of Christian belief and practice, pleasures of the senses, personal desires, all vanished in the utter self-abandonment of the soul in the presence of God. The “resigned” soul...

...”: that is, on whether the vertiginous depths of analogy participate in an underlying substrate of meaning, recognizable as “the Word of God.” 60. Herbert, “Mr Cogito and the Imagination,” 352 . 61. Mr Cogito, of course, is also a persona by which Herbert ironizes his own methods of deflating irony...

... is shown, in Paradise Lost , to be the original sin of the first human couple. As much as for Lanyer, then, sex is for Milton bound up with hermeneutics—and, for both poets, the individual's relationship with God is a consuming passion, about which one may report a phenomenology of affects but can offer...

... jurors plus the presiding god, Athena, whose twelfth vote carries slightly more weight than any of the others. The article concludes that some aspects of the procedure are exemplary, especially Athena's insistence on respecting each side's right to be heard, her sensitivity toward the grievances felt...

... tension is absent: in North India it is common for audiences composed of both Hindus and Muslims to attend performances in which Hindu vocalists sing devotedly of Allah, and Muslim vocalists of Krishna. Hindustani musicians of whatever faith, it is argued, worship Nada-Brahman, the Hindu “Sound-God...