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Christian literature : an anthology

"This anthology of Christian literature gathers together writings drawn from 2000 years of Christian history. Assuming no prior knowledge of Christian theology or history, it offers students in one volume a rich and diverse selection of material. The work offers substantial introductions to each text under discussion, along with study questions to assist interaction with texts. Study panels embedded in the text offer easy access to critical information about the writers and their texts." "The pieces included fall into three broad categories: works of literature specifically written to serve the needs of Christians, such as prayers, devotional works, and sermons; works of literature, such as stories and poems, which are not specific to the Christian faith, but which have been shaped or influenced by Christian ideas, values, images, and narratives; and works of literature which interact with Christian ideas, individuals, schools of thought, or institutions, such as novels by George Eliot and Thomas Hardy." "The anthology is primarily concerned with the Christian literature of the English language (including Old English and Middle English), although it also includes material relating to the patristic period originally written in Greek, Latin, and Syriac, and medieval and Renaissance works in Latin. Substantial sections of writings are included, rather than brief excerpts, to allow readers to really enter the mind of the author represented. The material is divided into five chronological sections stretching from the patristic period to the modern period, and within each section authors are also arranged chronologically. Considerable care has been taken to ensure that the work avoides denominational bias."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2001
Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, UK, 2001
Christian literature, English
xx, 796 pages ; 26 cm
9780631216056, 9780631216063, 0631216057, 0631216065
43684503
The patristic period, ca. 100-600. Clement of Rome ; Ignatius of Antioch ; The martyrdom of Polycarp ; Irenaeus of Lyons ; Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullian ; Eusebius of Caesarea ; Athanasius of Alexandria ; Ephraim the Syrian ; Cyril of Jerusalem ; Gregory of Nyssa ; The peregrination of Egeria ; Augustine of Hippo ; Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus
English and Irish sources, ca. 600-1050. Caedmon's hymn ; Bede ; The deer's cry ; The dream of the rood ; The Junius codex ; The Exeter Book riddles ; The Blickling homilist ; Ælfric ; Wulfstan
The Middle Ages, 1050-1500. Anselm of Canterbury ; Peter Abelard ; Bernard of Clairvaux ; Francisof Assisi ; Ancrene Wisse ; Thomas Aquinas ; Hugh of Balma ; Dante Alighieri ; Ludolf of Saxony ; The cloud of unknowing ; William Langland ; Geoffrey Chaucer ; Julian of Norwich ; The York mystery plays ; Thomas à Kempis ; William Dunbar
The Renaissance and Reformation, 1500-1700. Erasmus of Rotterdam ; Martin Luther ; Ignatius Loyola ; John Calvin ; John Foxe ; Edmund Spenser ; The King James version of the Bible ; Sir Walter Raleigh ; Lancelot Andrewes ; William Shakespeare ; John Donne ; George Herbert ; Sir Thomas Browne ; John Milton ; Jeremy Taylor ; Henry Vaughan ; Andrew Marvell ; Blaise Pascal ; John Bunyan ; The book of common prayer
The modern period, 1700-2000. Daniel Defoe ; Joseph Addison ; Isaac Watts ; Joseph Butler ; Jonathan Edwards ; John Wesley ; Charles Wesley ; John Newton ; William Paley ; William Blake ; William Wordsworth ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; John Keble ; John Henry Newman ; Ralph Waldo Emerson ; Anthony Trollope ; Benjamin Jowett ; George Eliot ; Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky ; Matthew Arnold ; George MacDonald ; Thomas Hardy ; Gerald Manley Hopkins ; Oscar Wilde ; Gilbert Keith Chesterton ; T.S. Eliot ; Dorothy L. Sayers ; C.S. Lewis ; Graham Greene ; R.S. Thomas ; Martin Luther King, Jr. ; David Lodge ; Garrison Keillor