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Author
Publisher
ISI Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Peter Jackson's film version of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the accompanying proliferation of Rings-related paraphernalia, has once again brought the work of J.R.R. Tolkien to a popular audience. There are, however, few full and accessible treatments of the religious vision permeating Tolkien's influential works. Bradley Birzer has remedied that with his fresh study, J.R.R. Tolkien's sanctifying Myth: understanding Middle-earth. In it Birzer...
Author
Series
Studies in major literary authors volume 27
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"Fresh examination of the works of Thornton Wilder emphasizing continuities in American literature from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. Sees Wilder as a literary descendant of Edward Taylor who drew from the Puritan worldview and tradition. Includes indepth readings of Shadow of a Doubt, The Trumpet Shall Sound, and others"--Provided by publisher.
110) Spiritual interrogations: culture, gender, and community in early African American women's writing
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
111) Reform and resistance: formations of female subjectivity in early medieval ecclesiastical culture
Author
Publisher
SUNY Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis's eloquent and winsome defense of the Christian faith, originated as a series of BBC radio talks broadcast during the dark days of World War Two. Here is the story of the extraordinary life and afterlife of this influential and much-beloved book. George Marsden describes how Lewis gradually went from being an atheist to a committed Anglican?famously converting to Christianity in 1931 after conversing into the night...