Christian Criticism: A Study of Literary God-talkRodopi, 1976 - 201 páginas |
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... beyond the speaker's own attitudes and feelings ? Note Ayer's radically empirical challenge : The theist , like the moralist , may believe that his experiences are cog- nitive experiences , but , unless he can formulate his 11.
... beyond the speaker's own attitudes and feelings ? Note Ayer's radically empirical challenge : The theist , like the moralist , may believe that his experiences are cog- nitive experiences , but , unless he can formulate his 11.
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... believe , that the very metaphors and images that his God - talk exploits are themselves revelatory by virtue of the fact that they are supported and in- formed by the authority of the Bible . There is a difference , in other words ...
... believe , that the very metaphors and images that his God - talk exploits are themselves revelatory by virtue of the fact that they are supported and in- formed by the authority of the Bible . There is a difference , in other words ...
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... believe in God or not when you read Paradise Lost , the argument runs . In fact , disbelief is probably an advantage because theologi- cal obstacles will not be as apt to get in your way . I can see the logic of this position because I ...
... believe in God or not when you read Paradise Lost , the argument runs . In fact , disbelief is probably an advantage because theologi- cal obstacles will not be as apt to get in your way . I can see the logic of this position because I ...
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... believe it is necessary to emphasize the utilitarian intent of poetic devotion to counter the efforts of those aesthetically - preoccupied readers who , in preferring the term " devotional poetry , " confess to a bias which , in my ...
... believe it is necessary to emphasize the utilitarian intent of poetic devotion to counter the efforts of those aesthetically - preoccupied readers who , in preferring the term " devotional poetry , " confess to a bias which , in my ...
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Índice
5 | |
21 | |
41 | |
Herberts Poetic Godtalk | 55 |
The Sacrifice | 73 |
Miltons God | 87 |
The Satanic Parable | 109 |
The Hazards of Semantic Idolatry | 135 |
The Sermon as Sacrament | 159 |
Performative Preaching | 179 |
Index | 197 |
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Adam Adam's aesthetic analogical Anglo-Catholic Antony Flew appears appropriate assertions Biblical Book Three Christ Christian claim commitment conceptual context David Crystal disclosure discourse distinction divine doctrine dogma Donne's empirical epic ethical Eve's evocative evoke example experience exploits expression fact faith Flower gious God-talk God's guage Heaven Herbert hermeneutical hermeneutical potential Holy human Hypostatic Union Ibid images interpretation John Donne language-game linguistic literal literary literature logic of obedience logical impropriety London Mammon Max Black meaning mercy metaphor Milton mind moral mystery natural numinous objectivity onlook parable Paradise Lost paradox passage phrase poem poetic devotion poetry preaching Puritan qualified Ramsey Ramsey's rational reader reality reason religious discernment religious insight religious language revealed sacramental Satan Scriptures semantic sense sermon significance simply situation speak speeches spirit stanza statement structure style suggest Swardson synthetic propositions theological tion University Press Virgin Birth vocational Waldock William Perkins words
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Página 39 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Página 37 - Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.
Página 119 - Encamp their legions, or with obscure wing Scout far and wide into the realm of Night, Scorning surprise. Or could we break our way By force, and at our heels all Hell should rise With blackest insurrection, to confound Heaven's purest light, yet our great enemy All incorruptible would on his throne Sit unpolluted...
Página 63 - All wasted? Not so, my heart; but there is fruit, And thou hast hands.
Página 55 - Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age, Gods breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, The Christian plummet sounding heav'n and earth; Engine against th...
Página 28 - Who would have thought my shrivelled heart Could have recovered greenness? It was gone Quite under ground; as flowers depart To see their mother-root, when they have blown; Where they together All the hard weather, Dead to the world, keep house unknown. These are thy wonders, Lord of power, Killing and quick'ning, bringing down to hell And up to heaven in an hour; Making a chiming of a passing-bell. We say amiss, This or that is: Thy word is all, if we could spell.
Página 125 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Página 22 - The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.
Página 27 - The Flower How fresh, O Lord, how sweet and clean Are thy returns! ev'n as the flowers in spring; To which, besides their own demean, The late-past frosts tributes of pleasure bring.
Página 28 - And now in age I bud again, After so many deaths I live and write; I once more smell the dew and rain, And relish versing: O my only light, It cannot be That I am he, On whom thy tempests fell all night.