Author: Daniel E. Lyons
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Languages : en
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The Element of Evil In The Writings Of J.F. Powers
Author: Daniel E. Lyons
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Languages : en
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Languages : en
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Startling Figures
Author: Michael O'Connell
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 1531503489
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Startling Figures is about Catholic fiction in a secular age and the rhetorical strategies Catholic writers employ to reach a skeptical, indifferent, or even hostile audience. Although characters in contemporary Catholic fiction frequently struggle with doubt and fear, these works retain a belief in the possibility for transcendent meaning and value beyond the limits of the purely secular. Individual chapters include close readings of some of the best works of contemporary American Catholic fiction, which shed light on the narrative techniques that Catholic writers use to point their characters, and their readers, beyond the horizon of secularity and toward an idea of transcendence while also making connections between the widely acknowledged twentieth-century masters of the form and their twenty-first-century counterparts. This book is focused both on the aspects of craft that Catholic writers employ to shape the reader’s experience of the story and on the effect the story has on the reader. One recurring theme that is central to both is how often Catholic writers use narrative violence and other, similar disorienting techniques in order to unsettle the reader. These moments can leave both characters within the stories and the readers themselves shaken and unmoored, and this, O’Connell argues, is often a first step toward the recognition, and even possibly the acceptance, of grace. Individual chapters look at these themes in the works of Flannery O’Connor, J. F. Powers, Walker Percy, Tim Gautreaux, Alice McDermott, George Saunders, and Phil Klay and Kirstin Valdez Quade.
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 1531503489
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Startling Figures is about Catholic fiction in a secular age and the rhetorical strategies Catholic writers employ to reach a skeptical, indifferent, or even hostile audience. Although characters in contemporary Catholic fiction frequently struggle with doubt and fear, these works retain a belief in the possibility for transcendent meaning and value beyond the limits of the purely secular. Individual chapters include close readings of some of the best works of contemporary American Catholic fiction, which shed light on the narrative techniques that Catholic writers use to point their characters, and their readers, beyond the horizon of secularity and toward an idea of transcendence while also making connections between the widely acknowledged twentieth-century masters of the form and their twenty-first-century counterparts. This book is focused both on the aspects of craft that Catholic writers employ to shape the reader’s experience of the story and on the effect the story has on the reader. One recurring theme that is central to both is how often Catholic writers use narrative violence and other, similar disorienting techniques in order to unsettle the reader. These moments can leave both characters within the stories and the readers themselves shaken and unmoored, and this, O’Connell argues, is often a first step toward the recognition, and even possibly the acceptance, of grace. Individual chapters look at these themes in the works of Flannery O’Connor, J. F. Powers, Walker Percy, Tim Gautreaux, Alice McDermott, George Saunders, and Phil Klay and Kirstin Valdez Quade.
The Complete Works of Menno Simons
Author: Menno Simons
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Category : Mennonites
Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Category : Mennonites
Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Pentecost
Author: Joanna Penn
Publisher: The Creative Penn
ISBN: 9780987055309
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
When Jesus of Nazareth rose from the dead, the Apostles took stones from his tomb. Then at Pentecost, the fire of the Holy Spirit empowered the stones, and the Apostles performed miracles in God's name. The stones were handed down through generations of Keepers, but now the Keepers are being murdered, the stones stolen by those who would use them for evil in a world transformed by religious fundamentalism.
Publisher: The Creative Penn
ISBN: 9780987055309
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
When Jesus of Nazareth rose from the dead, the Apostles took stones from his tomb. Then at Pentecost, the fire of the Holy Spirit empowered the stones, and the Apostles performed miracles in God's name. The stones were handed down through generations of Keepers, but now the Keepers are being murdered, the stones stolen by those who would use them for evil in a world transformed by religious fundamentalism.
Flannery O'Connor
Author: R. Neil Scott
Publisher: Timberlane Books
ISBN: 9780971542808
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
Publisher: Timberlane Books
ISBN: 9780971542808
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
Elements of Dogmatic History
Author: Wilhelm Münscher
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Category : Theology, Doctrinal
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Category : Theology, Doctrinal
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Apotropaia and Phylakteria: Confronting Evil in Ancient Greece
Author: Maria G. Spathi
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803277505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The belief in the existence of evil forces was part of ancient everyday life and a phenomenon deeply embedded in popular thought of the Greek world. Stemming from a conference held in Athens in June 2021, this volume addresses the apotropaia and phylakteria from different perspectives: via literary sources, archaeological material, and iconography.
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803277505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The belief in the existence of evil forces was part of ancient everyday life and a phenomenon deeply embedded in popular thought of the Greek world. Stemming from a conference held in Athens in June 2021, this volume addresses the apotropaia and phylakteria from different perspectives: via literary sources, archaeological material, and iconography.
...The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry: Literary and political essays
Author: James Russell Lowell
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Elements of Dogmatic History ... Translated from the second edition of the original German by J. Murdock, D. D.
Author: Wilhelm MUENSCHER
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
In Search of Peace Research
Author: Charles Boasson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349118850
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
A collection of essays which explore the roots of human conflict and the search for possible solutions, the text expands on the foundations of peace research. Boasson's other titles include "In A Dutch Looking-Glass" and Van den Dungen has co-edited "Peace Movements and Political Cultures".
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349118850
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
A collection of essays which explore the roots of human conflict and the search for possible solutions, the text expands on the foundations of peace research. Boasson's other titles include "In A Dutch Looking-Glass" and Van den Dungen has co-edited "Peace Movements and Political Cultures".