Literature And Natural Theology In Early Modern England
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Literature and Natural Theology in Early Modern England
Author | : Katherine Calloway |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2023-11-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781009415262 |
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Katherine Calloway explores the relationship between science and religion through a wide-ranging selection of early modern English poets.
Literature and Natural Theology in Early Modern England
Author | : Katherine Calloway |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2023-10-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781009415279 |
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Exploring the diverse forms of natural theology expressed in seventeenth-century English literature, Katherine Calloway reveals how, in ways only partially recognized until now, authors such as Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Cavendish, Hutchinson, Milton, Marvell, and Bunyan describe, challenge, and even practice natural theology in their poetry.
Theology and Agency in Early Modern Literature
Author | : Timothy Rosendale |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2018-05-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108418843 |
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Explores fundamental questions of human will and action in early modern theology and literature.
The Secularization of Early Modern England
Author | : Charles John Sommerville |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 9780195074277 |
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This study overcomes the ambiguity and daunting scale of the subject of secularization by using the insights of anthropology and sociology, and by examining an earlier period than usually considered. Concentrating not only on a decline of religious belief, which is the last aspect of secularization, this study shows that a transformation of England's cultural grammar had to precede that loosening of belief, and that this was largely accomplished between 1500 and 1700. Only when definitions of space and time changed and language and technology were transformed (as well as art and play) could a secular world-view be sustained. As aspects of daily life became divorced from religious values and controls, religious culture was supplanted by religious faith, a reasoned, rather than an unquestioned, belief in the supernatural. Sommerville shows that this process was more political and theological than economic or social.
The Book of God
Author | : Colin Jager |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0812239792 |
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"The Book of God manages to be at once ambitious, deliberate, and nuanced in its interconnecting conceptions of philosophy and literary criticism."—Orrin Wang, University of Maryland
The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology
Author | : Russell Re Manning |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 672 |
Release | : 2013-01-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780191611711 |
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The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology is the first collection to consider the full breadth of natural theology from both historical and contemporary perspectives and to bring together leading scholars to offer accessible high-level accounts of the major themes. The volume embodies and develops the recent revival of interest in natural theology as a topic of serious critical engagement. Frequently misunderstood or polemicized, natural theology is an under-studied yet persistent and pervasive presence throughout the history of thought about ultimate reality - from the classical Greek theology of the philosophers to twenty-first-century debates in science and religion. Of interest to students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this authoritative handbook draws on the very best of contemporary scholarship to present a critical overview of the subject area. Thirty-eight new essays trace the transformations of natural theology in different historical and religious contexts, the place of natural theology in different philosophical traditions and diverse scientific disciplines, and the various cultural and aesthetic approaches to natural theology to reveal a rich seam of multi-faceted theological reflection rooted in human nature and the environments within which we find ourselves.
The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology
Author | : Paul Cefalu |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2017-11-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780192536181 |
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The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology argues that the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle of Saint John the Evangelist were so influential during the early modern period in England as to share with Pauline theology pride of place as leading apostolic texts on matters Christological, sacramental, pneumatological, and political. The book argues further that, in several instances, Johannine theology is more central than both Pauline theology and the Synoptic theology of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, particularly with regard to early modern polemicizing on the Trinity, distinctions between agape and eros, and the ideologies of radical dissent, especially the seventeenth-century antinomian challenge of free grace to traditional Puritan Pietism. In particular, early modern religious poetry, including works by Robert Southwell, George Herbert, John Donne, Richard Crashaw, Thomas Traherne, and Anna Trapnel, embraces a distinctive form of Johannine devotion that emphasizes the divine rather than human nature of Christ; the belief that salvation is achieved more through revelation than objective atonement and expiatory sin; a realized eschatology; a robust doctrine of assurance and comfort; and a stylistic and rhetorical approach to representing these theological features that often emulates John's mode of discipleship misunderstanding and dramatic irony. Early modern Johannine devotion assumes that religious lyrics often express a revelatory poetics that aims to clarify, typically through the use of dramatic irony, some of the deepest mysteries of the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle.
Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature
Author | : Hannibal Hamlin |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2004-02-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521832705 |
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Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature examines the powerful influence of the biblical Psalms on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature. It explores the imaginative, beautiful, ingenious and sometimes ludicrous and improbable ways in which the Psalms were 'translated' from ancient Israel to Renaissance and Reformation England. No biblical book was more often or more diversely translated than the Psalms during the period. In church psalters, sophisticated metrical paraphrases, poetic adaptations, meditations, sermons, commentaries, and through biblical allusions in secular poems, plays, and prose fiction, English men and women interpreted the Psalms, refashioning them according to their own personal, religious, political, or aesthetic agendas. The book focuses on literature from major writers like Shakespeare and Milton to less prominent ones like George Gascoigne, Mary Sidney Herbert and George Wither, but it also explores the adaptations of the Psalms in musical settings, emblems, works of theology and political polemic.