Matthew: 5036 books
by Matthew Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Posthumously published in 1888, Matthew Arnold’s previously collected essays on poetry and poets proved, if ever there was a doubt, Arnold’s immense critical gift. His focused, honest style eludes the follies of bias. Included here are the essays, “The Study of Poetry,” “Milton,” “Thomas Gray,” “John Keats,” “Wordsworth,” “Byron,” and “Shelley,” among others.
Cormac McCarthy and the Signs of Sacrament
Literature, Theology, and the Moral of Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Although scholars have widely acknowledged the prevalence of religious reference in the work of Cormac McCarthy, this is the first book on the most pervasive religious trope in all his works: the image of sacrament, and in particular, of eucharist. Informed by postmodern theories of narrative and...
by Jennifer Haigh, Kaveh Akbar, Matthew Lippman
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
The Spring 2017 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles; the Winter issue is staff-edited.
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A Matter of Style
Writing and Technique
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Good prose - fiction and non-fiction alike--is part mystery and part technique. Mystery cannot be taught, but technique can, and if it is well taught it can open a window onto the mystery. In &IA Matter of Style Matthew Clark draws on examples from real writers, past and present, to examine the...
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh, Revised Edition
Transforming Evil in Soul and Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Visionary theologian and award-winning author Matthew Fox challenges traditional perceptions of good and evil by offering a new theology that lays the groundwork for a more enlightened treatment of ourselves, one another, and all of nature. In this revised edition with a luminous foreword by Deepak...
The Future of Biblical Interpretation
Responsible Plurality in Biblical Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
How should we expect multiple interpretations of the Bible to be kept in check? Each of the contributors, experts in the field, considers one parameter of responsibility, which may act as a constraint on the validity of competing biblical interpretations. Stanley E. Porter considers theological resposibility;...
White Bound
Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Discussions of race are inevitably fraught with tension, both in opinion and positioning. Too frequently, debates are framed as clear points of opposition—us versus them. And when considering white racial identity, a split between progressive movements and a neoconservative backlash is all too frequently...
Slavoj Žižek
A Little Piece of the Real
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Slavoj Zizek has emerged as the pre-eminent European cultural theorist of the last decade and has been described as the ultimate Marxist/Lacanian cultural studies scholar. His large and growing body of work has generated considerable controversy, yet his texts are not structured as standard academic...
Christian Mystics
365 Readings and Meditations
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
As Matthew Fox notes when an aging Albert Einstein was asked if he had any regrets he replied I wish I had read more of the mystics earlier in my life. The 365 writings in Christian Mystics represent a wide-ranging sampling of these readings for modern-day seekers of all faiths or no faith. Fox is...
Meister Eckhart
A Mystic-Warrior for Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Though he lived in the thirteenth century, Meister Eckhart’s deeply ecumenical teachings were in many ways modern. He taught about what we call ecology, championed artistic creativity, and advocated for social, economic, and gender justice. All these elements have inspired spiritual maverick Matthew...
A Way to God
Thomas Merton's Creation Spirituality Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This unique reflection was prompted by an invitation Matthew Fox received to speak on the centennial of Thomas Merton’s birth. Fox says that much of the trouble he’s gotten into — such as being excommunicated in 1993 from the Dominican Order by Cardinal Ratzinger (who later became Pope Benedict)...
Parley P. Pratt
The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
After Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, Parley P. Pratt was the most influential figure in early Mormon history and culture. Missionary, pamphleteer, theologian, historian, and martyr, Pratt was perennially stalked by controversy--regarded, he said, "almost as an Angel by thousands and counted...
The U.S. House of Representatives
Fundamentals of American Government
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The third book in the Fundamentals of American Government civics series explores the inner workings of this important part of the legislative branch. As with Selecting a President and The U.S. Senate, this book is written for all audiences, but voiced toward high school seniors and college freshmen-or...
by Matthew Pierce
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
In the tenth century Shiˀa scholars assembled accounts of twelve imams’ lives, portraying them as miracle workers who were betrayed. These biographies invoked shared cultural memories, shaped communal responses and ritual practices of mourning, and inspired Shiˀa identity and religious imagination for centuries to come, Matthew Pierce shows.