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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... Philosophy ; C : Revelation and Preaching Jerusalem destroyed 586 Dorian Invasion 1050 A + Iliad , Odyssey c.800 Hesiod , b c.800 Jews Return from Exile 538 Marathon 490 Golden Age of Athens 461-431 Maccabean era Augustus first Roman ...
... Philosophy ; C : Revelation and Preaching Jerusalem destroyed 586 Dorian Invasion 1050 A + Iliad , Odyssey c.800 Hesiod , b c.800 Jews Return from Exile 538 Marathon 490 Golden Age of Athens 461-431 Maccabean era Augustus first Roman ...
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... philosophers . Certainly the seeker might have recourse to Mount Olympus or the oracle at Delphi , but the Greeks ... philosophy on the metaphor of Sisyphus's vain effort to roll a stone uphill . Narcissus , who fell in love with his ...
... philosophers . Certainly the seeker might have recourse to Mount Olympus or the oracle at Delphi , but the Greeks ... philosophy on the metaphor of Sisyphus's vain effort to roll a stone uphill . Narcissus , who fell in love with his ...
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... Philosophy ( New York : Harper Torchbook . 1957 ) . 3. Agatha Thornton , " Achaean Homecomings , " in The Odyssey , 35ff . 4. Roberto Calasso , The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony ( New York : Knopf , 1993 ) , 366ff . 5. Erich Auerbach ...
... Philosophy ( New York : Harper Torchbook . 1957 ) . 3. Agatha Thornton , " Achaean Homecomings , " in The Odyssey , 35ff . 4. Roberto Calasso , The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony ( New York : Knopf , 1993 ) , 366ff . 5. Erich Auerbach ...
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... Philosophy is the love for , and striving after , wisdom . William James de- scribed it as " an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly . " Any serious com- municator of biblical truth must interact with philosophical categories ...
... Philosophy is the love for , and striving after , wisdom . William James de- scribed it as " an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly . " Any serious com- municator of biblical truth must interact with philosophical categories ...
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... philosopher - kings . Opponents called this aristocracy " an open con- spiracy of gentleman pederasts . " He assumed that most people are prisoners in a dark ... philosophy is Plato , and Plato is MINING THE ORE OF THE CLASSICAL WORLD 29.
... philosopher - kings . Opponents called this aristocracy " an open con- spiracy of gentleman pederasts . " He assumed that most people are prisoners in a dark ... philosophy is Plato , and Plato is MINING THE ORE OF THE CLASSICAL WORLD 29.
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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