Author: Daniel E. Lyons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Michael O'Connell
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 1531503489
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 189

Get Book Here

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.

Author: Joanna Penn
Publisher: The Creative Penn
ISBN: 9780987055309
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Get Book Here

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.

Author: Menno Simons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mennonites
Languages : en
Pages : 766

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: R. Neil Scott
Publisher: Timberlane Books
ISBN: 9780971542808
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1098

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Wilhelm Münscher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology, Doctrinal
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Maria G. Spathi
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803277505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Get Book Here

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.

Author: James Russell Lowell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: John F. Haught
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429979797
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Get Book Here

Book Description
In God After Darwin, eminent theologian John F. Haught argues that the ongoing debate between Darwinian evolutionists and Christian apologists is fundamentally misdirected: Both sides persist in focusing on an explanation of underlying design and order in the universe. Haught suggests that what is lacking in both of these competing ideologies is the notion of novelty, a necessary component of evolution and the essence of the unfolding of the divine mystery. He argues that Darwin's disturbing picture of life, instead of being hostile to religion-as scientific skeptics and many believers have thought it to be-actually provides a most fertile setting for mature reflection on the idea of God. Solidly grounded in scholarship, Haught's explanation of the relationship between theology and evolution is both accessible and engaging. The second edition of God After Darwin features an entirely new chapter on the ongoing, controversial debate between intelligent design and evolution, including an assessment of Haught's experience as an expert witness in the landmark case of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District on teaching evolution and intelligent design in schools.

Author: Wilhelm MUENSCHER
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Get Book Here

Book Description