John M Robertson: 17 books

Pardoned: Prayers and Promises for Prisoners sensitively addresses the emotions and needs of so many who are incarcerated.  The author, John M. Robertson, has a gift for using the written word to meet special needs.  Choosing scripture promises which touch the hurts and fears of individuals,...

Some men are especially difficult to manage in the psychotherapy room. They are controlling, exploitive, rigid, aggressive, and prejudiced. In a word, they are Authoritarian. This book is a guide for therapists and counselors who work with these men, offering an understanding of their psychological...

Pagan Christs: Studies in Comparative Hierology by John M. Robertson The bulk of the present volume is substantially a synthesis of Christian origins, introduced by a discussion of the principles of hierology. Such discussion is still forced on sociology by the special pleaders of the prevailing...

Here I Am, God; Where Are You? Prayers and Promises for Hospital Patients was written during the author's years as a hospital chaplain.  Many patients find themselves very alone facing uncertainty, fear, and pain.  They have no words to describe what they are feeling.  Isolation cries...

Since the first issue of this work in 1903, but especially within the past few years, its main positions have been brought into extensive discussion by other writers, notably in Germany, where the Christusmythe of Professor Arthur Drews has been the theme of many platform debates. The hypothesis of...

This 1893 collection of essays represents a Victorian freethinker’s attempts to infuse literary criticism with modern, logical thinking on the level of science, law, philosophy, and medicine. Includes the long essay “Science in Criticism,” as well as “Mr. Howell’s Novels,” “The Fable of the Bees,” and “The Art of Tennyson.”

"I wish you would tell me things, and let me write the story of your life," I said in chatting to my father one evening about six weeks before his death. "Perhaps I will, some day," he answered. "I believe I could do it better than any one else," I went on, with jesting vanity. "I believe you could,"...

"I wish you would tell me things, and let me write the story of your life," I said in chatting to my father one evening about six weeks before his death. "Perhaps I will, some day," he answered. "I believe I could do it better than any one else," I went on, with jesting vanity. "I believe you could,"...

In this 1897 collection the Victorian freethinker applies the tests of his earlier compilation of essays in a new way. Includes the essays “The Theory and Practice of Criticism,” “Poe,” “Coleridge,” “Shelley and Poetry,” “The Art of Keats,” “The Art of Burns,” “Stevenson on Burns,” and “Clough.”

Taking its cue from a nineteenth century that felt detached from the poetry and drama of the eighteenth century, and riding the revival of interest in Elizabethan writing, this book presents in-depth essays on Shakespeare, Sidney, and Spenser, as well as their predecessors and successors. Includes notes on prose fiction and the later dramatists.

The influence of French essayist Montaigne (1533-1592) on Shakespeare’s works—particularly on the language and ideas of Hamlet and King Lear—is the subject of this 1909 collection of scholarly essays. Includes “Parallel Passages,” “Shakespeare and the Classics,” “Shakespeare’s Culture-Evolution,” “The Originality of Shakespeare,” and more.

Social media platforms are the latest manifestation in a series of sociotechnical innovations designed to enhance civic engagement, political participation, and global activism. While many researchers started out as optimists about the promise of social media for broadening participation and enhancing...

Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made...