Augustine's City Of God: A Reader's Guide
The City of God is the most influential of Augustine's works which played a decisive role in the formation of the Christian West. It's scope embodies cosmology, psychology, political thought, anti-pag...
Theory And Theology In George Herbert's Poetry: Divinitie, And Poesie, Met
In seventeenth-century England the poet George Herbert became known as Divine Herbert', his poetry a model for those aspiring to the status of inspired Christian poet. This book explores the relations...
The Consolation Of Philosophy
Boethius composed the Consolatio Philosophiae in the sixth century AD whilst awaiting death under torture. The circumstances of composition, the heroic demeanor of the author, and the Menippean' textu...
The Owl, The Raven, & The Dove: The Religious Meaning Of The Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales
The fairy tales collected by the brothers Grimm are among the best known and most widely-read stories in western literature. In recent years commentators such as Bruno Bettelheim have, usually from a ...
George Herbert's Christian
No seventeenth-century poet was more popularly read or imitated than George Herbert, and none represents the lyric implications of the Christian narrative more fully, with the possible exception of Mi...
Interpretation Of Otherness: Literature, Religion, And The American Imagination
In a unique and probing analysis, this study examines the function of literary criticism in religious studies and explores the relation of literature to religion in the works of major American writers...
American Madonna: Images Of The Divine Woman In Literary Culture
This book explores a notable if unlikely undercurrent of interest in Mary as mythical Madonna that has persisted in American life and letters from fairly early in the nineteenth century into the later...
The Dolorous Passion Of Our Lord Jesus Christ
"There's more Emmerich than Bible in Mel Gibson's 'Passion of the Christ' movie..." Mel Gibson has admitted that he relied heavily on Emmerich and Brentano's The Dolorous Passion to film his popular m...
God's Way Of Electing Souls To Eternal Life As Revealed In His Word
The Scriptures our only Guide - God's Procedure in Election - The Sovereignty of God - The Fallen State of Man - God's Remedy - The Universal''Call'' - The Ministry of the Spirit - God's Controversy w...
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