Religion and Literature: A ReaderRobert Detweiler, David Jasper Featuring a selection from over 80 key texts, this anthology aims to help the reader to understand the common origins of religious expression and of literature. The texts included cover classical literature, the Bible, English and European classics and contemporary works. |
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... Jasper. RELIGION and LITERATURE A Reader Robert Detweiler & David Jasper , editors with S. Brent Plate & Heidi L. Nordberg Westminster John Knox Press Louisville , Kentucky © 2000 Westminster John Knox Press All rights reserved .
... Jasper. RELIGION and LITERATURE A Reader Robert Detweiler & David Jasper , editors with S. Brent Plate & Heidi L. Nordberg Westminster John Knox Press Louisville , Kentucky © 2000 Westminster John Knox Press All rights reserved .
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... John Knox Press , 100 Witherspoon Street , Louisville , Kentucky 40202-1396 . Scripture quotations , unless otherwise indicated , are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible , copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian ...
... John Knox Press , 100 Witherspoon Street , Louisville , Kentucky 40202-1396 . Scripture quotations , unless otherwise indicated , are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible , copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian ...
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... John Popol Vuh " The Woman Who Fell from the Sky " Ovid , Metamorphoses Joseph Addison , " Ode " 19 23 24 26 28 Mark Twain , Extracts from Adam's Diary 32 34 D. H. Lawrence , " The Man Who Died " 34 Walter Ong , The Presence of the Word ...
... John Popol Vuh " The Woman Who Fell from the Sky " Ovid , Metamorphoses Joseph Addison , " Ode " 19 23 24 26 28 Mark Twain , Extracts from Adam's Diary 32 34 D. H. Lawrence , " The Man Who Died " 34 Walter Ong , The Presence of the Word ...
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... John Donne , " Batter my heart , three - personed God " George Herbert , " Love " Herman Melville , Moby Dick : Or the Whale 74 75 76 John Updike , A Month of Sundays 78 Further Reading 80 Chapter 5. The Literary Structures of Religious ...
... John Donne , " Batter my heart , three - personed God " George Herbert , " Love " Herman Melville , Moby Dick : Or the Whale 74 75 76 John Updike , A Month of Sundays 78 Further Reading 80 Chapter 5. The Literary Structures of Religious ...
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... John Milton , Paradise Lost Elie Wiesel , Night VISIONS OF THE END The Book of Daniel J. G. Ballard , The Atrocity Exhibition Contents 122 124 126 127 130 132 133 136 137 139 141 142 144 145 148 Samuel Taylor Coleridge , " Kubla Khan ...
... John Milton , Paradise Lost Elie Wiesel , Night VISIONS OF THE END The Book of Daniel J. G. Ballard , The Atrocity Exhibition Contents 122 124 126 127 130 132 133 136 137 139 141 142 144 145 148 Samuel Taylor Coleridge , " Kubla Khan ...
Contents
David Friedrich Strauss The Life of Jesus Critically Examined | 5 |
Paul Tillich Theology of Culture | 12 |
The Book of Genesis | 19 |
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky | 26 |
H Lawrence The Man Who Died | 34 |
Psalm 130 Ezekiel 3 Revelation 10 | 41 |
Teresa of Avila The Interior Castle | 48 |
Martin Luther Table Talk | 50 |
Malcolm Lowry Under the Volcano | 122 |
Ovid Metamorphoses | 130 |
CONVERSION AND ECSTASY | 136 |
John Milton Paradise Lost | 142 |
J G Ballard The Atrocity Exhibition | 148 |
Further Reading | 154 |
Douglas Coupland Life after God | 160 |
INTERMEDIALITY | 167 |
John Updike A Month of Sundays | 78 |
The Parable of Simeon and Bar Kappara | 97 |
John Milton Paradise Lost | 111 |
Edmond Jabès The Book of Margins | 171 |
Acknowledgments | 184 |
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