The Humble Sublime

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Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781780767444
Total Pages : 280 pages
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Book Synopsis The Humble Sublime by : Ronald F. Thiemann

Download or read book The Humble Sublime written by Ronald F. Thiemann and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can belief be taken for granted when the modern self is now so thoroughly cut off from the transcendent? The philosopher Charles Taylor has argued, in his influential work A Secular Age, that it cannot. But theologian Ronald F. Thiemann, likewise a prominent public intellectual, asserts - against Taylor - that people can yet find divine significance in the ordinary and everyday as much as in structured faith and worship. Thiemann's subtle idea of the humble sublime hinges on a notion of sacred immanence, or what he calls 'sacramental realism': of holiness present in the hidden. Finding continuity between theological and overtly 'secular' writers, he shows that the late medieval and early modern eras gave rise to the persistent idea that God may be found not just where he might be expected to be, but also in his opposite. Discussing in turn Luther, realistic painting and Charles Taylor's overarching narrative in A Secular Age, the author then pursues the theme of the humble sublime in the literary and social critical works of Anna Akhmatova, Langston Hughes, George Orwell and Albert Camus. He argues passionately in favour, even in a secular context, of the idea of sacred worth as a vital component of modern identity. This powerful melding of secular and sacred has a strong ethical and political dimension, especially in resisting tyranny. Thiemann's final book will appeal to all those committed to sacred value, whether agnostics, atheists or believers.

American Sublime

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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299127749
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (277 download)

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Book Synopsis American Sublime by : Rob Wilson

Download or read book American Sublime written by Rob Wilson and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing ideas of the sublime in American literature from Puritan writings to the postmodern epoch, Rob Wilson demonstrates that the North American landscape has been the ground for political as well as aesthetic transport. He takes a distinctly historical approach and explores the ways in which experiences of the American landscape instill desire for other kinds of vastness: self-expansion, national expansion, and American political power. As Wallace Stevens put it, the American will takes "dominion everywhere." Wilson sets the stage for his "genealogy" with a discussion of the classical notion of the sublime (taken primarily from Longinus) and the ways that notion was pragmatically transformed by its American setting and appropriated by American poets. He follows this transformation in successive chapters on the Puritans (Bradstreet) through the Naturalists (Livingston and Bryant), from the epitome of the American sublime (Whitman) to the greatest of the modernists (Stevens) and its present-day incarnations (Ashbery and others). Writing today under the sign of Hiroshima, contemporary writers must struggle with the concept of the sublime within a context of spiralling technologies and nuclear force that calls into question the long-standing American sacralization of power. Throughout American Sublime, Wilson engages in an original theoretical inquiry into "the sublime" as term, topic, complex, and controversial idea in literary and critical history. Furthermore, he undertakes his historical study from an avowedly postmodern perspective, one that draws on and extends the work of Jameson, Lyotard, Foucault, Lentricchia, Harold Bloom, and others.

Magnificence and the Sublime in Medieval Aesthetics

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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780230618985
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (189 download)

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Book Synopsis Magnificence and the Sublime in Medieval Aesthetics by : S. Jaeger

Download or read book Magnificence and the Sublime in Medieval Aesthetics written by S. Jaeger and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays recover the lively discussions on the topics of 'magnificence' and 'the sublime' in the art and literature of antiquity, the Renaissance, and the ages following, and apply them to the Middle Ages to draw exciting new conlcusions.

The Measure of Greatness

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192577166
Total Pages : 336 pages
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Book Synopsis The Measure of Greatness by : Sophia Vasalou

Download or read book The Measure of Greatness written by Sophia Vasalou and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnanimity is a virtue that has led many lives. Foregrounded early on by Plato as a philosophical virtue par excellence, it became one of the crown jewels in Aristotle's account of human excellence and was accorded equally salient place by other ancient thinkers. It is one of the most distinctive elements of the ancient tradition to filter into the medieval Islamic and Christian worlds. It sparked important intellectual engagements and went on to carve deep tracks through several of the later philosophies to inherit from this tradition. Under changing names and reworked forms, it would continue to breathe in the thought of Descartes and Hume, Kant, and Nietzsche. Its many lives have been joined by important continuities, yet they have also been fragmented by discontinuities — discontinuities reflecting larger shifts in ethical perspectives and competing answers to questions about the nature of the good life, the moral nature of human beings, and their relationship to the social and natural world they inhabit. They have also been punctuated by moments of intense controversy in which the vision of human greatness has itself been called into doubt. The aim of this volume is to provide an insight into the complex trajectory of a virtue whose glitter has at times been as dazzling as it has been divisive. By exploring the many lives it has lived, we will be in a better position to evaluate whether this is a virtue we still want to make central to our own ethical lives, and why.

Natural Symbols

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134773749
Total Pages : 222 pages
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Book Synopsis Natural Symbols by : Mary Douglas

Download or read book Natural Symbols written by Mary Douglas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every natural symbol - derived from blood, breath or excrement - carries a social meaning and this work focuses on the ways in which any one culture makes its selections from body symbolism. Each person treats their body as an image of society and the author examines the varieties of ritual and symbolic expression and the patterns of social ritual in which they are embodied. Natural Symbols is a book about religion and it concerns our own society at least as much as any other. It has stimulated new insights into religious and political movements and has provoked re-appraisals of current progressive orthodoxies in many fields. As a classic, it represents a work of anthropology in its widest sense, exploring themes such as the social meaning of natural symbols and the image of the body in society which are now very much in vogue in anthropology, sociology and cultural studies. In this reissue and with a new Introduction, Natural Symbols will continue to appeal to all students of anthropology, sociology and religion.

Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts

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Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334056942
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts by : Jeremy Begbie

Download or read book Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts written by Jeremy Begbie and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the arts witness to the transcendence of the Christian God? It is widely believed that there is something transcendent about the arts, that they can awaken a profound sense of awe, wonder, and mystery, of something “beyond” this world. Many argue that this opens up fruitful opportunities for conversation with those who may have no use for conventional forms of Christianity. Jeremy Begbie—a leading voice on theology and the arts—in this book employs a biblical, trinitarian imagination to show how Christian involvement in the arts can (and should) be shaped by a vision of God’s transcendence revealed in the person of Jesus Christ. After critiquing some current writing on the subject, he goes on to offer rich resources to help readers engage constructively with the contemporary cultural moment even as they bear witness to the otherness and uncontainability of the triune God of love.

Acts

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Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 083089747X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Acts by : Francis Martin

Download or read book Acts written by Francis Martin and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Acts of the Apostles—or more in keeping with the author's intent, the Acts of the Ascended Lord—is part two of Luke's story of "all that Jesus began to do and teach." In it he recounts the expansion of the church as its witness spread from Jerusalem to all of Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth. While at least forty early church authors commented on Acts, the works of only three survive in their entirety—John Chrysostom's Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles, Bede the Venerable's Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles and a long Latin epic poem by Arator. In this Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture volume, substantial selections from the first two of these appear with occasional excerpts from Arator alongside many excerpts from the fragments preserved in J. A. Cramer's Catena in Acta SS. Apostolorum. Among the latter we find selections from Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa, Ephrem the Syrian, Didymus the Blind, Athanasius, Jerome, John Cassian, Augustine, Ambrose, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Theodoret of Cyr, Origen, Cyril of Jerusalem, Cyril of Alexandria, Cassiodorus, and Hilary of Poitiers, some of which are here translated into English for the first time. As readers, we find these early authors transmit life to us because their faith brought them into living and experiential contact with the realities spoken of in the sacred text.

The Nineteenth Century

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1074 pages
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Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry

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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472427068
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry written by Dr Unn Falkeid and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the status of Gaspara Stampa (1523-1554) as one of the greatest and most creative poets and musicians of the Italian Renaissance, scholarship on Stampa has been surprisingly scarce and unsystematic. In this volume, scholars from various disciplines employ contrasting methodologies to explore different aspects of Stampa’s work. The volume presents a rich introduction to, and interdisciplinary investigation of, Gaspara Stampa’s impact on Renaissance culture.

Nineteenth Century and After

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Total Pages : 1034 pages
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The Twentieth Century

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1036 pages
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Download or read book The Twentieth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nineteenth Century

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Total Pages : 1032 pages
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John Clare's Romanticism

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319538594
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book John Clare's Romanticism written by Adam White and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a major reassessment of John Clare’s poetry and his position in the Romantic canon. Alert to Clare’s knowledge of the work of his Romantic contemporaries and near contemporaries, it puts forward the first extended series of comparisons of Clare’s poetry with texts we now think of as defining the period – in particular poems by Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and John Keats. It makes fully evident Clare’s original contribution to the aesthetic culture of the age by analysing how he explores a wide range of concerns and preoccupations which are central to, and especially privileged in, Romantic-period poetics, including ‘fancy’, the sublime, childhood, ruins, joy, ‘poesy’, and a love lyric marked by a peculiar self-consciousness about sincere expression. At the heart of this book is the claim that the hitherto under-scrutinised subjective stances, transcendent modes, and abstract qualities of Clare’s lyric poetry situate him firmly within, and as fundamentally part of, Romanticism, at the same time as his writing constitutes a distinctive contribution to one of the most fascinating eras of English literature.

Proceedings ...

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Total Pages : 664 pages
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Book Synopsis Proceedings ... by : Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Supreme Council for the Northern Jurisdiction

Download or read book Proceedings ... written by Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Supreme Council for the Northern Jurisdiction and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Abstract of Proceedings of the Supreme Council

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Total Pages : 654 pages
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Book Synopsis Abstract of Proceedings of the Supreme Council by : Freemasons. U.S. Scottish Rite. Supreme Council for the Northern Jurisdiction

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A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church

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Total Pages : 584 pages
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Book Synopsis A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by : Philip Schaff

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Christ the Ideal of the Monk

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Total Pages : 484 pages
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Book Synopsis Christ the Ideal of the Monk by : Columba Marmion

Download or read book Christ the Ideal of the Monk written by Columba Marmion and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: