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Book A Sermon in Praise of Materialism

Download or read book A Sermon in Praise of Materialism written by George Arthur Frantz and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Erotics of Materialism

Download or read book The Erotics of Materialism written by Jessie Hock and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Erotics of Materialism, Jessie Hock maps the intersection of poetry and natural philosophy in the early modern reception of Lucretius and his De rerum natura. Subtly revising an ancient atomist tradition that condemned poetry as frivolous, Lucretius asserted a central role for verse in the practice of natural philosophy and gave the figurative realm a powerful claim on the real by maintaining that mental and poetic images have material substance and a presence beyond the mind or page. Attending to Lucretius's own emphasis on poetry, Hock shows that early modern readers and writers were alert to the fact that Lucretian materialism entails a theory of the imagination and, ultimately, a poetics, which they were quick to absorb and adapt to their own uses. Focusing on the work of Pierre de Ronsard, Remy Belleau, John Donne, Lucy Hutchinson, and Margaret Cavendish, The Erotics of Materialism demonstrates how these poets drew on Lucretius to explore poetry's power to act in the world. Hock argues that even as classical atomist ideas contributed to the rise of empirical scientific methodologies that downgraded the capacity of the human imagination to explain material phenomena, Lucretian poetics came to stand for a poetry that gives the imagination a purchase on the real, from the practice of natural philosophy to that of politics. In her reading of Lucretian influence, Hock reveals how early modern poets were invested in what Lucretius posits as the materiality of fantasy and his expression of it in a language of desire, sex, and love. For early modern poets, Lucretian eroticism was poetic method, and De rerum natura a treatise on the poetic imagination, initiating an atomist genealogy at the heart of the lyric tradition.

Book Escaping Materialism

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Caywood
  • Publisher : Questar Publishers
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780945564126
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Escaping Materialism written by George Caywood and published by Questar Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Materialism

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  • Author : Octavius Brooks Frothingham
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1876
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 26 pages

Download or read book Materialism written by Octavius Brooks Frothingham and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lucretius Or Paul

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  • Author : Joseph P. Thompson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-07-06
  • ISBN : 9781330807071
  • Pages : 50 pages

Download or read book Lucretius Or Paul written by Joseph P. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lucretius or Paul: Materialism and Theism Tested by the Nature and the Needs of Man; An Address Delivered in the American Chapel, Berlin, on Thanksgiving Day, Nov; 25th, 1875 The favor with which you have received two Thanksgiving Addresses, seemed to bring me under obligation to accept your invitation for a third, in the hope that this might at least serve for the utterance of such sentiments of gratitude, fellowship, and devotion, as to-day are common to us all. With your hearts quickened by the anticipations of the coming year, you might naturally expect that the grateful memories of a hundred years would find vent to-day in an outburst of patriotic joy. But every thing in its season. That debt of gratitude is so great, so-high, so deep, that I shall not presume to discount it in advance. Let it come with its whole weight to the heart of the whole nation, in the year and the day that Time has marked as one of the most bright and blessed in its calendar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Materialism and the Incarnation

Download or read book Materialism and the Incarnation written by Arthur Gore Ryder and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Garment of Praise

Download or read book The Garment of Praise written by Eleanor Carroll Chilton and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Earth Careful Way of Life

Download or read book An Earth Careful Way of Life written by Lionel Basney and published by Regent College Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Classic Pentecostal Sermon Library Vol 4

Download or read book Classic Pentecostal Sermon Library Vol 4 written by Ray H. Hughes and published by Pathway Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Epistle to Marguerite de Navarre and Preface to a Sermon by John Calvin

Download or read book Epistle to Marguerite de Navarre and Preface to a Sermon by John Calvin written by Marie Dentière and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born to a noble family in Tournai, Marie Dentière (1495-1561) left her convent in the 1520s to work for religious reform. She married a former priest and with her husband went to Switzerland, where she was active in the Reformation's takeover of Geneva. Dentière's Very Useful Epistle (1539) is the first explicit statement of reformed theology by a woman to appear in French. Addressed to Queen Marguerite of Navarre, sister of the French king Francis I, the Epistle asks the queen to help those persecuted for their religious beliefs. Dentière offers a stirring defense of women and asserts their right to teach the word of God in public. She defends John Calvin against his enemies and attacks the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church. Her Preface (1561) to one of Calvin's sermons criticizes immodesty and extravagance in clothing and warns the faithful to be vigilant. Undaunted in the face of suppression and ridicule, this outspoken woman persisted as an active voice in the Reformation.

Book German Literature  A Very Short Introduction

Download or read book German Literature A Very Short Introduction written by Nicholas Boyle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German writers, be it Goethe, Nietzsche, Marx, Brecht or Mann, have had a profound influence on the modern world. This Very Short Introduction illuminates the particular character and power of German literature, and examines its impact on the wider cultural world.

Book Emerson in His Sermons

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  • Author : Susan L. Roberson
  • Publisher : University of Missouri Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780826209832
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Emerson in His Sermons written by Susan L. Roberson and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treating the sermons extensively as an autobiographical text, Roberson establishes that Emerson's years in the pulpit were pivotal and that his sermons are key texts in revealing the essential development of his thought. Central to Roberson's explication of the sermons is Emerson's conception of self-reliance, his invention of a new hero for a new age, and his merging of his own identity with that heroic ideal.

Book Economies of Praise

Download or read book Economies of Praise written by Ryan Netzley and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reevaluates early modern poems of praise as, paradoxically, challenging an artistic economy that values exchange and productivity Early modern poems of praise typically insist that they do not have a purpose or enact real labor beyond their effortless listing of laudable qualities. And yet the poets discussed in this study, including Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, Anne Bradstreet, Lucy Hutchinson, and John Milton, hint at an alternative aesthetic economy at work in their verse. Poetic praise, it turns out, might show us a social world outside the organizing principle of exchange. In Economies of Praise: Value, Labor, and Form in Seventeenth‐Century English Poetry, Ryan Netzley explores how poems of praise imagine alternatives to market and gift economies and point instead to a self-contained aesthetic economy that works against a more expansive and productivist understanding of literary art. By depicting exchange as inconsequential, unproductive, and redundant rather than a necessary constituent of social order, these poems model for modern readers a world without the imperative to create, appraise, and repeatedly demonstrate one’s own value.

Book The Immortality of the Soul  A Sermon  Etc

Download or read book The Immortality of the Soul A Sermon Etc written by Rev. Thomas ALLIN (of the Methodist New Connexion.) and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Religion and Enlightenment in Catherinian Russia

Download or read book Religion and Enlightenment in Catherinian Russia written by Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This valuable study explores the Russian Enlightenment with reference to the religious Enlightenment of the mid to late eighteenth century. Grounded in close reading of the sermons and devotional writings of Platon (Levshin), Court preacher and Metropolitan of Moscow, the book examines the blending of European ideas into the teachings of Russian Orthodoxy. Highlighting the interplay between Enlightenment thought and Orthodox enlightenment, Elise Wirtschafter addresses key questions of concern to religious Enlighteners across Europe: humanity's relationship to God and creation, the distinction between learning and enlightenment, the role of Christian love in authority relationships, the meaning of free will in a universe governed by Divine Providence, and the unity of church, monarchy, and civil society. Countering scholarship that depicts an Orthodox religious culture under assault from European modernity and Petrine absolutism, Wirtschafter emphasizes the ability of Russia's educated churchmen to assimilate and transform Enlightenment ideas. The intellectual and spiritual vitality of eighteenth-century Orthodoxy helps to explain how Russian policymakers and intellectuals met the challenge of European power while simultaneously coming to terms with the broad cultural appeal of the Enlightenment's universalistic human rights agenda. Religion and Enlightenment in Catherinian Russia defines the Russian Enlightenment as a response to the allure of European modernity, as an instrument of social control, and as the moral voice of an emergent independent society. Because Russia's enlightened intellectuals focused on the moral perfectibility of the individual human being, rather than social and political change, the originality of the Russian Enlightenment has gone unrecognized. This study corrects images of a superficial Enlightenment and crisis-ridden religious culture, arguing that in order to understand the humanistic sensibility and emphasis on individual dignity that permeate Russian intellectual history, and the history of the educated classes more broadly, it is necessary to bring Orthodox teachings into the discussion of Enlightenment thought. The result is a book that explains the distinctive origins of modern Russian culture while also allowing scholars to situate the Russian Enlightenment in European and global history.

Book Feasting on the Word  Year A  Volume 1

Download or read book Feasting on the Word Year A Volume 1 written by David L. Bartlett and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the twelve-volume series Feasting on the Word, Westminster John Knox Press offers one of the most extensive and well-respected resources for preaching on the market today. When complete, the twelve volumes will cover all of the Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle, along with moveable occasions. The page layout is truly unique. For each lectionary text, preachers will find brief essaysÂâ€"one each on the exegetical, theological, pastoral, and homiletical challenges of the text. Each volume will also contain an index of biblical passages so that nonlectionary preachers may make use of its contents. The printed volumes for Ordinary Time include the complementary stream during Year A, the complementary stream during the first half of Year B, the semicontinuous stream during the second half of Year B, and the semicontinuous stream during Year C. Beginning with the season after Pentecost in Year C, the alternate lections for Ordinary Time not in the print volumes will be available online at feastingontheword.net.

Book Unity a Distinctive Note of the Church  A sermon  etc

Download or read book Unity a Distinctive Note of the Church A sermon etc written by Henry Samuel Musgrave HUBERT and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: