...Colin Jager © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Colin Jager is assistant professor of English at Rutgers University. He is at work on a book titled Natural Designs: Romanticism and Secularism from Hume to Austen . Mansfield Park and the End of Natural Theology Colin Jager...

...Dustin D. Stewart dds2152@columbia.edu Infinite Variety: Literary Invention, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 1688–1730 . By Wolfram Schmidgen . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2021 . 259 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023...

... of a modern translator. FRANKJ. WARNKE Univers i/y ?f‘ II’m h in gt on Pascal and Theology. By JAN MIEL. Baltimore and London: Johns Hop- kins Press, 1969. xv + 216 pp. $8.50; 81s. This is a worthy, useful book, well informed...

...Stephen Manning Sarah Appleton Weber. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1969. x + 292 pp. $10.00. Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 REVIEWS Theology and Poetiy in the Middle English Lyric: A Study of Sacred History and Aesthetic...

...Lawrence Willson F. GURA PHILIP. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1981. x + 203 pp. $17.50. Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 300 REVIEWS The Wisdom of Words: Language, Theology, and Literature in the New...

... to the wonderful are not close examiners.” ESTHERSHEPHARD Sun Jose State College Die Genealogie der Cotter in Germanischcr Religion, Mythologie und Theologie. By ERNSTALFRED PHILIPPSON. Urbana : University of Illinois Studies...

...Emma Mason Abstract The radicalism of Christianity is often underplayed in literary studies by scholars who perceive its theology as politically suspect and inflexible. Yet an unwillingness to engage with Christian theology and experience produces critical misreadings of literary texts that reveal...

..., atonement theology, and nostalgia for purgatory. Despite its voiced misgivings about British commercialism, Paradise Lost thus participates in England’s historical growth from peripheral island to sprawling world empire. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 John Milton early modern...

... tensions between precedents and ambitions. Literary study—cast variously as a substitution for theology, ideology, or even intellectual dilution—became a significant proxy for such debates. Alison Wood is a research fellow in English at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences...

... both psalmic theology and skeptical philosophy. james_kuzner@brown.edu Copyright © 2021 by University of Washington 2021 “The Flower” George Herbert Paul Celan praise poetry Psalms Remembering and forgetting participate at the festival where Lordship and Bondage cease...

...Jan-Melissa Schramm Abstract This essay traces the intense interrelatedness of the three discourses that we now consider distinct but that ask similar questions about the existential value of life and the relationship between spiritual and temporal matters. Law, literature, and theology address...

...: “secularism.” Melville helps us think secularism not as the extirpation of religion in modernity but as an ensemble of broadly disciplinary interventions, whose aim was both to exalt Protestant Christianity as the authorizing sign for planetary white dominion and to demote theology itself into a practice...

... it. timothy.larsen@wheaton.edu Copyright © 2022 by University of Washington 2022 Victorian studies Bible theology religious literacy There is a dramatic gulf between best practices and worst practices in terms of biblical and theological literacy when it comes to the current state of Victorian...

... would maintain. Yet he wouId maintain that his thesis is well established and that new findings will not alter it greatly. And his thesis is this: the De Doctrina is Milton’s complete, systematic theology ; since it represents Milton’s theological thought at the very time the epic...

...Coburn Freer Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 1 Diana Benet. Secretary of Praise: The Poetic Vocation of George Herbert . Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1984. 207 pp. $22.50. Richard Strier. Love Known: Theology and Experience in George Herbert's Poetry...

.... It legit- imates the self-representation of modernity, which excludes closure, hierar- chy, repetition, and the ccmjoined practices of violence and totalization. Alexandre Leupin’s new book, equally attentive to theology and the practices of writing, furnishes a welcome deconstruction...

... between the fact that critics have agreed in interpreting the Encyclopedia as an attack upon the Church, and the fact that Salesses credited Diderot with a knowledge of theology comparable to Bossuet’s. But, as Diderot’s critic knows, “the devil quotes the Scripture to his own ends...

... the belief that personal relations exist between God and man. Since his avowed intention is to study natural law not from the legal but from the theological standpoint, he might have briefly outlined on what points it opposed antagonistic theologies. The con- cept of natural law, he thinks...

... on Pascal and Theology. By JAN MIEL. Baltimore and London: Johns Hop- kins Press, 1969. xv + 216 pp. $8.50; 81s. This is a worthy, useful book, well informed, well conceived, well written. It is hereby recommended to all libraries and to students of Pascal and of seventeen th-cen tury...

.... Adams’ interest in relating these tragedies to the intellectual movements of their own times is limited to a consideration of certain aspects of sixteenth-century theology, actually little more than the Sacrament of Penance in its various parts with some of the operations of Divine...