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First Things Book of the Year award What does the cross of Christ have to do with the thunderbird? How might the life and work of Christian writer G. K. Chesterton shed light on our understanding of North American Indigenous art and history? This unexpected connection forms the basis of these discerning reflections by art historian Matthew Milliner. In this fifth volume in the Hansen Lectureship Series, Milliner appeals to Chesterton's life and work-including The Everlastin...

By examining theological and literary narratives through an engagement with well-known theorists of reading and religion, this collection of essays, international in perspective, brings together varied, refreshing, and provocative responses to well-established literary and critical theories.

This book explores significant representations of Shinto and Buddhist sacred space, spiritual symbols, and religious concepts that are embedded in the secular framework of Japanese films aimed at general audiences in Japan and globally. These cinematic masterpieces by directors Akira Kurosawa, Hayao Miyazaki, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and Makoto Shinkai operate as expressions of and, potentially, catalysts for transcendence of various kinds, particularly during the Heisei era (1989-2019), when Japan ex...

This intimate portait of bereavement and death recalls the author's experiences of the loss of his wife, as well as his evolving belief in God and his acceptance of a new life.

This book explores how four contemporary artists—Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, Robert Gober, and Damien Hirst—pursue the question of death through their fraught appropriations of Christian imagery. Each artist is shown to not only pose provocative theological questions, but also to question the abilities of theological speech to adequately address current attitudes to death. When set within a broader theological context around the thought of death, Bacon’s works invite fresh readings of the New...

James Thomson (B.V.) bildet in der Literaturgeschichtsschreibung des 19. Jahrhunderts allenfalls eine Marginalie. Sein Werk gilt als die Lebensbeichte eines erfolglosen Literaten, der am offentlichen Leben seiner Zeit wenig Anteil nahm und sein existentielles wie literarisches Scheitern in seinen Schriften protokollierte. Die vorliegende Studie unternimmt demgegenuber den Versuch, das Gesamtwerk des Autors mit den vielfaltigen philosophischen, theologischen und naturwissenschaftlichen Diskussion...

When an author of fiction employs the imagination and sets characters in a new location, they are in a sense creating a world. Might such fictional worlds give us a deeper appreciation for our own? Many readers have found themselves, like the Pevensie children, transported by C. S. Lewis into Narnia, and they have traveled from Lantern Waste to Cair Paravel and the edge of the sea. Thanks to J. R. R. Tolkien, readers have also journeyed with Bilbo, Frodo, and their companions across Middle-ear...

This incisive and perceptive new book concerns 'Catholic Literature' in Britain since 1850. To many people, Roman Catholicism is culturally foreign and 'other'. And yet some of the most outstanding writers of recent times have been Catholics - often converts, such as Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Muriel Spark and David Jones. In every case these authors' Catholicism was integral to their creative genius and they represent an important strand in any account of English literature. Professor Griffit...

Die Untersuchung uber die Entstehungsbedingungen des relativ plotzlich einsetzenden Minnesangs in Deutschland geht der Frage nach, welche Funktion die eigenartige Liedkunst fur die Bewusstseinsbildung der Zeit zu erfullen hatte. Indem die Lyrik zu den ideologischen Problemen an der Kulturwende des 12. Jahrhunderts in Beziehung gesetzt wird, kann der Sinngehalt des Dichterwortes besser begriffen werden. Die Arbeit zielt also uber die eng gefasste Ursprungsfrage hinaus, sie leistet im genetischen...

This is a listing and classification of the instances in which Codex D, the Beza Codex, alters the Gospels to make them agree with each other.

These three volumes present Latin translations of Greek works that had had grown up attached to the name of Ephrem. There are a total of 221 works on various biblical, spiritual, and monastic topics, with scholia and indices.

Dieses Jahrbuch hat zwei Schwerpunkte, die sich aus den Themen der Veranstaltungen der Gesellschaft im letzten Jahr ergeben. Zum einen handelt es sich um Dostojewskijs Konzept vom "Untergrundmenschen", das er in Auseinandersetzung mit der Durchsetzung burgerlicher Gesellschaftsverhaltnisse in Russland in seinen "Aufzeichnungen aus dem Untergrund" entwickelt. Zum anderen beschaftigt sich der Band mit der Apokalyptik nach der Offenbarung des Johannes als einem gewichtigen strukturellen als auch in...