Christian Literature category: 2036 books
by Elgin J. Dobbins
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
An old man in the December of his life, a fear of death after a long life and the hopelessness of a lost soul headed for purgatory. These are the elements a new tale entitled “The Foolish Man.” The account tells the story of Peter Doubletree who is on his death bed in a hospital waiting...
Hell's Gate
Battle for Man's Soul
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Pastor Moses Samuels, a former drug addict turned minister of the gospel, is called by God to Henrick, Texas, a town hes never heard of. In obedience, he makes the move and discovers a town overrun with Satan worshippers. Ninety percent of the population is involved in the satanic cult. His job is...
Fleshly Tabernacles
Milton and the Incarnational Poetics of Revolutionary England
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
In Fleshly Tabernacles, Bryan Hampton examines John Milton’s imaginative engagement with, and theological passion for, the Incarnation. As aesthetic symbol, theological event, and narrative picture of humanity’s potential, the Incarnation profoundly governs the way Milton structures his 1645 Poems,...
Uses and Abuses of Moses
Literary Representations since the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
In Uses and Abuses of Moses, Theodore Ziolkowski surveys the major literary treatments of the biblical figure of Moses since the Enlightenment. Beginning with the influential treatments by Schiller and Goethe, for whom Moses was, respectively, a member of a mystery cult and a violent murderer, Ziolkowski...
Saint Marks
Words, Images, and What Persists
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
A wide-ranging book ranging from biblical texts to painting and writing from the Renaissance to modernity.
The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace
Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace is the first book to explore key religious themes - from boredom to addiction, and distraction – in the work of one of America's most celebrated contemporary novelists.
In a series of short, topic-focussed chapters, the bookjoins a selection of...
by Luci Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Luci Shaw is now 90 years old. The author of more than 35 collections of poetry and creative non-fiction over the last five decades, she describes her dedication to this art as a burden to “speak into a culture that finds it hard to listen.” This collection of new poems — all composed over the...
Spoken Words By A Witness
Inspiring spoken word poetry
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
“Spoken words by a witness” is the first book of a collection of unique poetry that was based on the poet’s actual life experience. The Pacoima based Author grew up in what was once called “One of the poorest cities in Los Angeles” and provides a empowering, inspiring and compelling message to readers to never loose faith.
Evolution and Conversion
Dialogues on the Origins of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Evolution and Conversion explores the main tenets of René Girard's thought in a series of dialogues. Here, Girard reflects on the evolution of his thought and offers striking new insights on topics such as violence, religion, desire and literature. His long argument is a historical one in which the...
White Roses on the Floor of Heaven
Nature and Flower Imagery in Latter-Day Saints Women's Literature, 1880-1920
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2006
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Charlotte Maria Tucker, Illustrator (Unknown)
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
The Second book in "The Roby Family" series. When tragedy strikes the Roby family each must go their separate ways for a time. They all flourish where they are planted and shed the light they have been given to others around them. This book also follows the Probyn boys...
Jacques Chessex
Calvinism and the Text
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Despite an impressive body of poems, novels, short stories, and literary criticism; high praise for his writing by French and Swiss critics; and a collection of honours that includes the prestigious Prix Goncourt, awarded for his novel L’Ogre in 1973, Jacques Chessex is relatively unknown outside...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This volume offers a view of modern Russian intellectual culture as shaped by the dynamic of conversions. The individual contributions examine a rich variety of personal conversions occurring in a culture in which the written word enjoyed a privileged status and, historically, was closely linked to...
Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques
Monstrosity and Religion in Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques examines the intersection of religion and monstrosity in a variety of different time periods in the hopes of addressing two gaps in scholarship within the field of monster studies. The first part of the volume—running from the medieval to the Early Modern period—focuses...