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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... political life in thirteenth - century B.C. Greek experience ( Iliad , 18.478-614 ) . In the Odyssey we have a greater vertical sense of the gods ( Athena intervenes ) , as Odysseus , " the great survivor , " " the model for strivers ...
... political life in thirteenth - century B.C. Greek experience ( Iliad , 18.478-614 ) . In the Odyssey we have a greater vertical sense of the gods ( Athena intervenes ) , as Odysseus , " the great survivor , " " the model for strivers ...
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... political philoso- phy . He failed to reach his ideals in Syracuse , where he was mentor to the young prince , Dionysius II , and the reign proved to be a disaster . His " ideal state " was to be ruled by philosopher - kings . Opponents ...
... political philoso- phy . He failed to reach his ideals in Syracuse , where he was mentor to the young prince , Dionysius II , and the reign proved to be a disaster . His " ideal state " was to be ruled by philosopher - kings . Opponents ...
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... Politics and Poetics are deliciously practi- cal , the latter being really the first book of literary criticism ever written , and in such contrast with Plato , who couldn't stand poetry , drama , or rhetoric . God was for Aristotle the ...
... Politics and Poetics are deliciously practi- cal , the latter being really the first book of literary criticism ever written , and in such contrast with Plato , who couldn't stand poetry , drama , or rhetoric . God was for Aristotle the ...
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... politics and religion . He seemed to believe that the Greek gods really existed , and he was concerned to safeguard their repu- tation . He has a great passage on the afterlife , and he believed staunchly in the immortality of the soul ...
... politics and religion . He seemed to believe that the Greek gods really existed , and he was concerned to safeguard their repu- tation . He has a great passage on the afterlife , and he believed staunchly in the immortality of the soul ...
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... political , religious , and moral factors have been advanced in explica- tion of the exhaustion . Certainly barbarization was gradual , with the culture mainly disintegrated within . Aspects of the decay are evident in Gibbon's treat ...
... political , religious , and moral factors have been advanced in explica- tion of the exhaustion . Certainly barbarization was gradual , with the culture mainly disintegrated within . Aspects of the decay are evident in Gibbon's treat ...
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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