Search Results for theology and literature

...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...

... of Christian theology and literature to the study of culture and politics is still sidelined or even dismissed; see, for example, the 2022 call for papers for the first unthemed British Association of Victorian Studies annual conference, which includes a nonexclusive suggestive list of twenty-six topics, none...

...Alison Wood “Cambridge English” and the uses of literature it implies proffer, still, an image central to our sense of the history of literary study. This essay explores the percolation of the discipline at a religiously reforming Cambridge. In the three decades before the inaugural...

... the vitiation of Calvinist rigor, the conjoined diminishment of theology and literature both, and the “loss of history” that eventuates from the ascent of new modes of secular authority, with their privatizing erasure of antagonism, their de-emphasis of politics, their valorization of noncoercive suasion over...

...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...

... of literature to its instrumentalization. In fact, an inherent incompatibility destabilizes their necessary interdependence. Although theology may be dedicated to the pursuit of truth saying about God-an enterprise hollowed out in the para- Haidri I Review...

... disciplines, it is incumbent on English studies now to see that these practices flourish in the field of media studies that seems likely to succeed it during the century ahead. Herbert F. Tucker is John C. Coleman Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Virginia, where he...

... to Rome and Blanco White was rejecting “the whole Patris- tic system of theology,”2 Francis W. Newman and James Anthony Froude were widening the distances between themselves and their brothers. The orthodox Newman not only rejected his heretical friend Blanco White, but also turned his back...

...] have somehow picked up along the way” and that this presents an endemic problem for our field. Jan-Melissa Schramm’s essay, which comes next, offers a helpful instance of how we might address this problem. Schramm, who works at the intersection of law, literature, and theology, reveals their extensive...

..., was understood. That omis- sion seems to be the case for both “Roman Theology” and Christian theology. In Professor Crowley’s words, “Roman theology found the concept of natural law a serviceable one.” As for the Christians he cites : St. Paul and St. Augustine who “preach it as fundamental...

... to present a generalized view of the field of Anglo-American literary relations from colonial times until the present. The lectures, each of which is about eighteen pages in length, have the following titles : I. “Early American Literature” ; 11. “The Rise of American Literature” ; 111...

... . Kareem Sarah Tindal . 2014 . Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Loewenstein David , and Shell Alison . 2019 . “ Early Modern Literature and England’s Long Reformation .” Reformation 24 , no. 2 : 53 – 58 . Love...

... of the minor vernaculars and from the extensive Neo-Latin literature of the Renaissance. -1’he five essays deal with “‘I’he Petrarchan Manner,” “European Pe- trarchism as ’I’rainirig in Poetic Diction,” “Conventional Safety Valves,” “’l‘he Political l’etrarchism of the Virgin Queen,” and “Lynkeus...

...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...

...Klaus Hofmann Milton and the Victorians . By Erik Gray. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. ix + 183 pp. University of Washington 2010 Klaus Hofmann is professor emeritus of English literature at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. Recent publications...

...John T. Hamilton The Dark Side of Literacy: Literature and Learning Not to Read. By Benjamin Bennett. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. ix + 347 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language. By John T. Hamilton. New York...

... the paradox, “Spiritual joy, so intensely desirable in Protestant theology, announces its elusiveness through the very insistence with which it is invoked” (78). By making this individual feeling an index of its distinc- tion from Catholic sacramentalism, Protestantism condemned itself to a permanent...

... lamented its absence in his life. As Potkay nicely formulates the paradox, “Spiritual joy, so intensely desirable in Protestant theology, announces its elusiveness through the very insistence with which it is invoked” (78). By making this individual feeling an index of its distinc- tion from...

... the paradox, “Spiritual joy, so intensely desirable in Protestant theology, announces its elusiveness through the very insistence with which it is invoked” (78). By making this individual feeling an index of its distinc- tion from Catholic sacramentalism, Protestantism condemned itself to a permanent...

... pleader, he keeps his main theme before us-and gives a totally false impression of these interesting plays. So all-important was the subject of religion (even sixteenth- century theology) in every phase of Elizabethan life and literature that to try to limit its influence to the domestic...