The Company of the Creative: A Christian Reader's Guide to Great Literature and Its ThemesKregel Academic - 639 páginas Great works and authors of the world are introduced and reviewed artistically, intellectually, and theologically. Persons discussed include Plato, Milton, Dickens, Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, and C. S. Lewis. |
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... analysis . Good biography and solid fiction can probe the human psyche in historic or modern settings . We should be aware that many themes in literature are WHAT'S AT STAKE IN CHRISTIAN EXPOSURE TO GREAT LITERATURE ? 13.
... analysis . Good biography and solid fiction can probe the human psyche in historic or modern settings . We should be aware that many themes in literature are WHAT'S AT STAKE IN CHRISTIAN EXPOSURE TO GREAT LITERATURE ? 13.
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... human experience of depravity . The journey motif is picked up by Boccaccio , Chaucer , Dante , Bunyan , and James Joyce , to name but a few . It stands against the anti - novel , which demolishes rational construct and is suspicious of ...
... human experience of depravity . The journey motif is picked up by Boccaccio , Chaucer , Dante , Bunyan , and James Joyce , to name but a few . It stands against the anti - novel , which demolishes rational construct and is suspicious of ...
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... human dilemma . His redemption and rescue were affected only when Chiron , an immortal , gave up immortality to save ... humans . The gods were never intimate with humans again . 6. Hesiod , the Boeotian farmer - poet ( 750 B.C. ) ...
... human dilemma . His redemption and rescue were affected only when Chiron , an immortal , gave up immortality to save ... humans . The gods were never intimate with humans again . 6. Hesiod , the Boeotian farmer - poet ( 750 B.C. ) ...
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... human potential . " The goal was endaimonia ( " the profound happiness of the virtuous and wise " ) , which in large part was achieved through ataraxia ( " freedom from emotional disturbance " ) . Epictetus in- sisted that , if we seek ...
... human potential . " The goal was endaimonia ( " the profound happiness of the virtuous and wise " ) , which in large part was achieved through ataraxia ( " freedom from emotional disturbance " ) . Epictetus in- sisted that , if we seek ...
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... human depravity on the freedom of the will . With the super - moralistic Donatists , he debated the na- ture of the ... humanity 60 THE COMPANY OF THE CREATIVE.
... human depravity on the freedom of the will . With the super - moralistic Donatists , he debated the na- ture of the ... humanity 60 THE COMPANY OF THE CREATIVE.
Contenido
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Tapping the Vitality of the Renaissance | 77 |
Revisiting Crucial Ideas from | 103 |
Weighing the Christian Heritage | 145 |
Appreciating the Treasures of British Poetry | 179 |
Inquiring into the Values of American Poetry | 261 |
Examining the Startling Surges | 375 |
Broadening the Search into World Literature | 425 |
Exploring the Literature of and About | 490 |
Assessing the Literature of Drama and | 512 |
Searching Through the Vast World of | 532 |
Selecting the Best in the Daunting Array | 558 |
Reading and Its Future | 582 |
Sifting the Amazing Trove of British Fiction | 306 |
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The Company of the Creative: A Christian Reader's Guide to Great Literature ... David L. Larsen Sin vista previa disponible - 1999 |
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