... translator Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy, Pascal’s interlocutor in the conversation on Epictetus and Michel de Montaigne. We’ve always had two Pascals, apologetic and unapologetic. Blaise Pascal G. W. F. Hegel Ludwig Wittgenstein Christian apologetics dialectics ...

... internal and external events of the sixty-three years of Coleridge’s life, in inter- preting his voluminous writings from his early political journalism to his late Christian apologetics, Bate seems to be applying the principles of Method that Coleridge valued, particularly those of “unity...

... frequently the wolf sentences the lamb. In all matters of conduct and judgment, there is a reversal of Christian values : the bad becomes the good, or at least the desired ; the fool becomes the wise man, or at least the admired. Constant is every man’s love for himself and for “Queen hfoney...

... and technological advances of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ; that, indeed, the concept pervaded Christian thought both in the era of primitive Christianity and throughout the Middle Ages; and that, when understanding of natural process and control of natural forces made possible...

... will have solutions vouchsafed to her that will not be granted to scholars who make deliberate and rational aggressions on the truth. It is because the ballads admit one into “an archaic world of feeling,” pre-Christian, pre-Calvin, pre-industrial, that Muir principally values them. She...

..., Coleridge, and Scott lay behind the close interlinking of religion and poetry, but it was given distinctive form by specific theological principles. Keble, whose early writings on poetry occur well before the initiation of the Movement, and whose volume The Christian Year inaugurated Tractarian...

... states that one of Mann’s essays on Goethe-presumably the “Phantasie” is meant-furnishes to some extent a con- soling ending to Doktor Faustus (p. 91). The “lesson” of the book, he holds, is that Germany can be saved only if “Christian freedom can be transformed into civic freedom” (p...

...; James Mill, John Stuart Mill, and Alexander Bain; William James and James Ward; Newman’s Christian apologetics; the criticism of Coleridge and Arnold. “Belief” fell under intense scrutiny during the second half of the nineteenth century when the historical sciences and Darwinism were...

... absence of form” (p. 126). The distinc- tions are not as decisive as we might have hoped. The author leaves no doubt regarding the dominant mother hatred and birth traumas that mark Rimbaud’s deeply Christian experience: “Lc Bateau iure is a complete intellectual and spiritual autobiography...

..., a “lay ap- proach to religion” (p. 5). They are all anticlerical, stress the importance of “common quiet,” and argue that the main points of the Christian faith are “few and plain.” But in a footnote these sixteen titles shrink to nine clear examples (pp. 163-64, n. 12). Of these, four postdate...

... expressed in the novel. Thus he states that one of Mann’s essays on Goethe-presumably the “Phantasie” is meant-furnishes to some extent a con- soling ending to Doktor Faustus (p. 91). The “lesson” of the book, he holds, is that Germany can be saved only if “Christian freedom can be transformed...

... there are times when Mr. Crocker is writing a book for the lovers of Diderot; at other times, he would seem to be appeasing the anti-Diderot group-and in both cases with arguments which are more “parti- pris” than objective information (p. 58 : “Christian morality” ; p. 64 : “Diderot...

...Christopher Braider Abstract Students of seventeenth-century French drama offer oddly truncated readings of Jean Rotrou’s Véritable Saint Genest . Fascinated by the play within a play in which the eponymous saint is converted to a Christian martyr’s faith by performing a Christian martyr’s role...

... Schupp (1610-1661) and the Catholic priest Abraham 2 Sancta Clara (1644-1709), have an uncanny affinity of intent. This in- tent may be the common denominator of the baroque phenomenon. It is a result of the didacticism which arose from medieval Christianity with its antithetical juxtaposition...

... underestimated. He had intended to serve Charlemagne; by fail- ing to perceive his own worth to Charles’ and Christianity’s cause, he has thrown himself away needlessly and deprived Charlemagne of his services. He had thought to avoid shame and criticism; he has brought dishonor on France...

... doctrine, Jordan opposes himself to the conceptual reductions of the Robertsonians. since medieval Christianity posits a rationally structured cosmic hierarchy whose parts are meaningfully disposed along the ascending way to God: FRANCIS LEE UTLEY...

...- sented if we include only apologetical writings and exclude “The Pro- fession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar’’ (in Bmile) and Letters from the Mountain, in both of which Rousseau insists that he is persecuted be- cause he is an unorthodox Christian, for in these works, as well as in Tom Paine’s...

... fundamentally opposed. Religio Laici  is a work of Christian apologetics; yet a degree of skepticism adheres to the form: witness the difficulty critics have had deciding which position Dryden favors. Not only does he represent Catholic, Protestant, and deist arguments, but he shows them morph- ing...

... pointed out that, although Christians must not ordinarily use “guileful policie,” the Bible warrants its use when there is “so good a way with so little blood to take speedie vengeance of God’s enemies.”8 Lodowick Lloyd collected biblical stratagems into a book, The Stratagems of Jerusalem...

... with Genius. Instead of being a proper priest of courtly love, he persists in setting his tales of sins of love side by side with stories that have nothing to do with courtly passion-sto- ries with an unmistakably Christian moral. Also, there are those educa- tional digressions. And worst of all, he...