Dismissing God: Modern Writers' Struggle Against ReligionIn the past two centuries many leading writers have held their quarrel with God. In Dismissing God, D. Bruce Lockerbie explores the nature of this quarrel by examining the lives, beliefs, and works of more than twenty European and American author. |
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Modern Writers' Struggle Against Religion D. Bruce Lockerbie. Other books by D. Bruce Lockerbie Billy Sunday Patriarchs ... Writing The Liberating Word : Art and the Mystery of the Gospel Education of Missionaries ' Children The Apostles ...
Modern Writers' Struggle Against Religion D. Bruce Lockerbie. Other books by D. Bruce Lockerbie Billy Sunday Patriarchs ... Writing The Liberating Word : Art and the Mystery of the Gospel Education of Missionaries ' Children The Apostles ...
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... writers- Dante , Shakespeare , Milton , Browning , and in our era T. S. Eliot , Graham Greene , Shusako Endo , John Updike — have not been timid about writing from a Christian world - and - life view , other writers have forsaken belief ...
... writers- Dante , Shakespeare , Milton , Browning , and in our era T. S. Eliot , Graham Greene , Shusako Endo , John Updike — have not been timid about writing from a Christian world - and - life view , other writers have forsaken belief ...
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... writing and women . His interest in writing came honestly enough . His father's sermons had been published ; his mother's temperance lectures printed ; two of his brothers were correspondents for the New York Tribune , for which his ...
... writing and women . His interest in writing came honestly enough . His father's sermons had been published ; his mother's temperance lectures printed ; two of his brothers were correspondents for the New York Tribune , for which his ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
The Ebb Tide of Faith | 17 |
The Abdication of Belief | 34 |
Copyright | |
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