Christian Literature category: 2036 books
A Theology of Sense
John Updike, Embodiment, and Late Twentieth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Scott Dill’s A Theology of Sense: John Updike, Embodiment, and Late Twentieth-Century American Literature brings together theology, aesthetics, and the body, arguing that Updike, a central figure in post-1945 American literature, deeply embeds in his work questions of the body and the senses...
by J. Gresham Machen
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
The general purpose of this course of lessons has been set forth in the introduction to the Student's Text Book. There is a tendency in the modern Church to neglect the study of Bible history. Such neglect will inevitably result in a loss of power. The gospel is a record of something that has happened,...
What Would Jesus Read?
Popular Religious Books and Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Since the late nineteenth century, religiously themed books in America have been commercially popular yet scorned by critics. Working at the intersection of literary history, lived religion, and consumer culture, Erin A. Smith considers the largely unexplored world of popular religious books, examining...
by Ariel Clark Silver
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The enduring search for female salvation in American literature is first expressed through typology, an interpretive framework that pairs type with antitype, historical scriptural promise with future spiritual fulfillment. When Cotton Mather invokes the typos of Esther in Ornaments of the Daughters...
The C. S. Lewis Collection: Academic Works
The Eight Titles Include: An Experiment in Criticism; The Allegory of Love; The Discarded Image; Studies in Words; Image and Imagination; Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature; Selected Literary Essays; and The Personal Heresy
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
With his trademark warmth and wit, Lewis offers invaluable insight and intellectual delight for readers.
Includes:
• An Experiment in Criticism
• The Allegory of Love
• The Discarded Image
• Studies in Words
• Image and Imagination
• Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
• Selected Literary Essays
• The Personal Heresy
Exploring Catholic Literature
A Companion and Resource Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2003
Designed for students of all ages, Exploring Catholic Literature: A Companion and Resource Guide provides an engaging and succinct introduction to twelve recognized masterpieces of Catholic literature, from Augustine's 4th century conversion narrative, The Confessions, to the recent poetry of Denise...
Godly Letters
The Literature of the American Puritans
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2006
In Godly Letters, Michael J. Colacurcio analyzes a treasury of works written by the first generation of seventeenth-century American Puritans. Arguing that insufficient scrutiny has been given this important oeuvre, he calls for a reevaluation of the imaginative and creative qualities of America's...
Jeremiah's Scribes
Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
New England Puritan sermon culture was primarily an oral phenomenon, and yet its literary production has been understood mainly through a print legacy. In Jeremiah's Scribes, Meredith Marie Neuman turns to the notes taken by Puritan auditors in the meetinghouse in order to fill out our sense of the...
Ascent
Philosophy and Paradise Lost
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Paradise Lost has never received a substantial, book-length reading by a philosopher. This, however should surprise no one, for Milton himself despised philosophers. He associated philosophy with deceit in his theological writings, and made philosophizing into one of the activities of fallen angels...
Skepticism and Belief in Early Modern England
The Reformation of Moral Value
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The central thesis of this book is that skepticism was instrumental to the defense of orthodox religion and the development of the identity of the Church of England. Examining the presence of skepticism in non-fiction prose literature at four transitional moments in English Protestant history during...
Virtues That Build Us Up
More Life Lessons from Great Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Uses examples from great literature to present powerful, articulate discussions of the Catholic character
For those who seek a moderately challenging, intellectual discussion of traditional Catholic morality, this book inspires readers to study and apply wisdom from trusted literary and spiritual...
The Pen and the Cross
Catholicism and English Literature 1850 - 2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
This incisive and perceptive new book concerns 'Catholic Literature' in Britain since 1850. To many people, Roman Catholicism is culturally foreign and 'other'. And yet some of the most outstanding writers of recent times have been Catholics - often converts, such as Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Muriel...
Religion and Technology into the Future
From Adam to Tomorrow's Eve
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Religion and Technology into the Future: From Adam to Tomorrow’s Eve examines the broad significance of the current trends and accomplishments in technology (AI/robots) against the long history of the human imagination of making sentient beings. It seeks to enrich our understanding of the present...
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
An American Pilgrimage
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2004
The story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God
In the mid-twentieth century four American Catholics came to believe that the best way to explore the questions of religious faith was to write about them-in works that readers of all kinds could admire....