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...Figure 1. A diagram of the demonstration of the Surface of God in chapter 41 of Faustroll . ...

... rejecting her, and specifically her eccentricities. Her life story proposes that the more singular she is, the more people will resist her; and the more that people resist her, the more surely her singular life is confirmed as God-inspired. Her singularity thus brings about the will of God, and her singular...

... really alone if God visits us—or if we have a good book? [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 solitude reading death Miss Havisham Mechthild of Magdeburg I thought I didn’t want the pandemic to end...

... not witnessed the isolation and the thunder, how do they know who is speaking when he speaks? The Lord explains how to know a true prophet. First, he insists that “I myself will hold accountable” those who ignore the words that the prophet speaks from God (Deut. 18:19). Besides this, prophets who either speak...

... in that biographical note Borges had composed to serve as an ironic epilogue to his complete works. Borges had written stories about theologians and politicians who refute the ideas of other theologians and politicians, but who in the eyes of God, or of history, are identified with each other as if their affinities...

.... This is his dynamic language for what could be more statically described as the distinction between God as absolutely transcendent of the world (including such worldly categories as presence) and God as implicated, inherent, really present in this world, “by faith” or otherwise—although surely...

... of Christianity based on what man could discover without the Bible, through reason alone. Yet, throughout the Apologie, Montaigne argues that human reason alone is incapable of ascertaining truth. Sebond, arguing from a typically medieval view, presents God as the architect of the ordered universe, while...

...figure 1. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 216, fol. 13. God creates the heavens, skies, seas, and land; Charles V tasks Corbechon with the encyclopedia’s translation. ...

... complete treatises: Arboleda (ca. 1475) and Admiraçión operum Dey ( Wonder at the Words of God , ca. 1477). 3 I will briefly explain the significance of the first work and focus on the multifaceted socio-scientific-religious diagnosis of the manuscript, along with the analysis of the authorial self...

... sufficiently describe what is most important about history-the individual believer's use of these opportune moments. Furthermore, the notion of opportunity adds an active component to this idea of history. Even though God may control the possibilities for history, each present moment provides an opportunity...

... a fait escrire. (Gilles, Poésies 2: 230) This is the praise and thanksgiving of abbot Gilles le Muisit to God, the Virgin Mary, Saint Martin, and all saints, for his sight having been recovered, he who had been blind for more than three years, and had not celebrated mass, nor seen anything but a bit...

... composed Le Rhin, his exercises in imagination, and sometimes in hallucination, in the face of nature foreshadow the methods of a Rimbaud. The poet's task is not only to see the world as a Baudelairean forest of symbols,4 like the seer who deciphers God's intentions in the book of the universe. He must...

..., which he does with the God of Love's explanation to his army of barons of Guillaume's plight (10). While the God of Love's speech to his army is a new contribution in that no such address occurs in Guillaume, the content and effect of the speech recall the opening of Guillaume's poem. Both the Narrator...

... identity. Even though Bude avoids openly describing the king's power as sacred and makes no allusions to the sacre, he recognizes that authority as coming directly from God, and by continually presenting Solornon as the exemplary ruler, he proposes a kingship that accords with the rule of that divine...

... hierarchies of colonialism and nation. Sermons had to explain why differences of wealth and power were structured and experienced in colonial/racialized form: According to their calculus, blacks were the principal example of God-created servants, born to "serve or learn trades, or work or plant fields," while...

... that solitude is decidedly not solitary; as with the friendly colloquy of auctores in Petrarch’s retreats, books are companions we bring with us into contemplation. 5 Not only am I interested in what other voices Southwell spoke with in solitude, whether that be his conscience, his reading, or his God, I...

... as an exemplary figure, submitting to “Goddis visitacioun” (God’s visitation) (line 382). Yet it is also an individual and specific story, one that happens to a man with a unique personal history in a thickly realized milieu. The Hoccleve of the Series is, by any possible definition, a well-rounded character...

... polemic, the interpretation of Genesis 3:15. In Hebrew, as God curses the serpent, he foretells the enmity between Eve s descendence and the snake s, but in Latin and Old French translation, thanks to the New Testament s linking of Eva and Ave, it is rather a specific ­woman, the Virgin Mary who...