Author: H. TrustaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church work
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
A Peep at "number Five:"
Author: H. TrustaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church work
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
A peep at "Number five"; or, The life of a city pastor
Author: H. Trusta (pseud. [i.e. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.])Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The American Whig Review
Author: American Review
Author: Mothers' Journal
Author: Fictional Transfigurations of Jesus
Author: Theodore ZiolkowskiPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1579109314
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Many novels revolve round the figure of Jesus. Some of the finest of them are defined by Ziolkowski as fictional transfigurations of Jesus. They share a modern hero patterned on Jesus the culture-hero, whose life consisted of the motifs of the last supper, lonely agony, betrayal, trial, and crucifixion. The aesthetic challenge of adapting this most familiar story for their generation has attracted an unusual number of great writers, among them Papini, Kazantzakis, Hesse, Mann, Greene, Faulkner, and Gore Vidal. The form began with the new image of a humanized Jesus which developed in the 19th century. The interest in religious paranoia and hysteria at the turn of the century instantly expanded its potentialities as novelists began to explore the theme of christomania. This was followed by studies of Jesus as a mythic figure and then Marxist-oriented portraits of Comrade Jesus. Finally the form became inverted into parody in the Fifth Gospels in which not Jesus, but Judas, is the central figure.
Displacing the Divine
Author: Douglas Alan WalrathPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231521804
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
As religious leaders, ministers are often assumed to embody the faith of the institution they represent. As cultural symbols, they reflect subtle changes in society and belief-specifically people's perception of God and the evolving role of the church. For more than forty years, Douglas Alan Walrath has tracked changing patterns of belief and church participation in American society, and his research has revealed a particularly fascinating trend: portrayals of ministers in American fiction mirror changing perceptions of the Protestant church and a Protestant God. From the novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who portrays ministers as faithful Calvinists, to the works of Herman Melville, who challenges Calvinism to its very core, Walrath considers a variety of fictional ministers, including Garrison Keillor's Lake Woebegon Lutherans and Gail Godwin's women clergy. He identifies a range of types: religious misfits, harsh Puritans, incorrigible scoundrels, secular businessmen, perpetrators of oppression, victims of belief, prudent believers, phony preachers, reactionaries, and social activists. He concludes with the modern legacy of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century images of ministers, which highlights the ongoing challenges that skepticism, secularization, and science have brought to today's religious leaders and fictional counterparts. Displacing the Divine offers a novel encounter with social change, giving the reader access, through the intimacy and humanity of literature, to the evolving character of an American tradition.
The Mother's and Young Lady's Annual
Author: To-day, a Boston literary journal, ed. by C. Hale
Author: Charles HaleTo-day
Author: Charles HalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description