Download or read book The Grounds and Reasons of Christian Regeneration Or the New Birth Offer d to the Consideration of Christians and Deists The Second Edition written by William LAW (Author of "A Serious Call, " etc.) and published by . This book was released on 1742 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Grounds and reasons of Christian Regeneration or the New Birth Offer d to the consideration of Christians and Deists The third edition written by William LAW (Author of “A Serious Call, ” etc.) and published by . This book was released on 1760 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reason and Religion in Clarissa written by E. Derek Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What distinguishes Clarissa from Samuel Richardson's other novels is Richardson's unique awareness of how his plot would end. In the inevitability of its conclusion, in its engagement with virtually every category of human experience, and in its author's desire to communicate religious truth, E. Derek Taylor suggests, Clarissa truly is the Paradise Lost of the eighteenth century. Arguing that Clarissa's cohesiveness and intellectual rigor have suffered from the limitations of the Lockean model frequently applied to the novel, Taylor turns to the writings of John Norris, a well-known disciple of the theosophy of Nicolas Malebranche. Allusions to this first of Locke's philosophical critics appear in each of the novel's installments, and Taylor persuasively documents how Norris's ideas provided Richardson with a usefully un-Lockean rhetorical grounding for Clarissa. Further, the writings of early feminists like Norris's intellectual ally Mary Astell, who viewed her arguments on behalf of women as compatible with her conservative and deeply held religious and political views, provide Richardson with the combination of progressive feminism and conservative theology that animate the novel. In a convincing twist, Taylor offers a closely argued analysis of Lovelace's oft-stated declaration that he will not be 'out-Norris'd' or 'out-plotted' by Clarissa, showing how the plot of the novel and the plot of all humans exist, in the context of Richardson's grand theological experiment, within, through, and by a concurrence of divine energy.
Download or read book A Short But Sufficient Confutation written by William Law and published by . This book was released on 1769 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to Jacob Boehme written by Ariel Hessayon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together for the first time some of the world’s leading authorities on the German mystic Jacob Boehme, to illuminate his thought and its reception over four centuries for the benefit of students and advanced scholars alike. Boehme’s theosophical works have influenced Western culture in profound ways since their dissemination in the early 17th Century, and these interdisciplinary essays trace the social and cultural networks as well as the intellectual pathways involved in Boehme’s enduring impact. The chapters range from situating Boehme in the 16th Century Radical Reformation, to discussions of his significance in modern theology. They explore the major contexts for Boehme’s reception including the Pietist movement, Russian religious thought and Western esotericism, as well as focusing more closely on important readers: the religious radicals of the English Civil Wars and the later English Behmenists; literary figures such as Goethe and Blake, and great philosophers of the modern age, among them Schelling and Hegel. Together, the chapters illustrate the depth and variety of Boehme’s influence and a concluding chapter addresses directly an underlying theme of the volume – asking why Boehme matters today, and how readers in the present might be enriched by a fresh engagement with his apparently opaque and complex writings.
Download or read book Yarnall Library of Theology of St Clement s Church Philadelphia written by Philadelphia. St. Clement's church. Yarnall library of theology and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life written by William Law and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ."If Mr. Law finds a spark of piety in a reader's mind, he will soon kindle it into a flame." --Edward Gibbon Originally published in 1728 at the beginning of the Enlightenment, when rational criticism of religious belief was at its peak, William Law's A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life succeeded in inspiring the most cynical men of the age with its arguments in favor of a spiritual life. Law's challenge of conventional piety and emphasis on Christian perfection directly influenced literary critic Samuel Johnson and historian Edward Gibbon, as well as Cardinal John Henry Newman. John Wesley called it one of three books that accounted for his first "explicit resolve to be all devoted to God." Also, Charles Wesley, George Whitefield, Henry Venn, William Wilberforce, and Thomas Scott each described reading the book as a major turning point in his life. More than simply a set of rules to live by, Law's book examines what it means to lead a Christian life and criticizes the perversion of Christian tenets by secular and spiritual establishments. Proclaiming that God does not merely forgive our disobedience, but directly calls us to obedience and to a life completely centered in him, he chides, "If you will here stop and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but because you never thoroughly intended it." Law's prose is fresh and vivid as he illustrates the Christian life as one lived completely for God. His thoughts on prayer, personal holiness, stewardship, pride and humility, and service to the poor will resonate with contemporary readers.
Download or read book The Works of the Reverend William Law M A Earnest and serious answer to Dr Trapp s discourse of the folly sin and danger of being righteous over much Appeal to all that doubt or disbelieve the truths of the gospel written by William Law and published by . This book was released on 1762 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Way of Divine Union written by Arthur Edward Waite and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Law Nonjuror and Mystic Author of a Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life c Formerly Follow of Emmanuel College Cambridge A Sketch of His Life Character and Opinions written by John Henry Overton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Download or read book Of Justification by Faith and Works a dialogue between a Methodist and a Churchman written by William LAW (Author of “A Serious Call, ” etc.) and published by . This book was released on 1760 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selections from the Works of W Law making a guide to rest in belief of the Gospel and in obedience to the Divine Law written by William LAW (Author of “A Serious Call, ” etc.) and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literary Loneliness in Mid Eighteenth Century England written by John Sitter and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The middle decades of the eighteenth century—the years that fall between the much-studied ages of Pope and of Johnson—constitute a fascinating, though neglected, period in English literature. John Sitter's book is a literary history of the 1740s and 1750s, a time of great experimentation and innovation, and a time to which the origins of many of the literary criteria of the current day can be traced. Studying the poetry, fiction, and nonfiction of the mid-eighteenth century, Sitter attempts to characterize the authors' shared pursuits and preoccupations. He focuses on what he calls literary loneliness—the emerging concept of the isolated writer who creates for a solitary reader, a writer who strives for a "pure poetry" unconnected to political and historical particulars. Tracing the literary changes that took place during the period, Sitter studies the early works of David Hume and the increasingly visionary writings of William Law; he considers the profound and puzzling break with the past manifested in contemporary poetry; and he analyzes the similar artistic premises and authorial difficulties apparent in the longer poems of Thomson, Young, and Akenside, and in the last novels of Richardson and Fielding. Their literary assumptions are still part of our critical tradition, Sitter says, and in his conclusion he notes some significant correspondences between mid-eighteenth- century literature and twentieth-century criticism. Anyone who studies the literature or the intellectual history of the eighteenth century, or who is concerned with the theory of literary history, will find Literary Loneliness rewarding reading.
Download or read book An Humble Earnest and Affectionate Address to the Clergy By William Law M A The Third Edition written by William Law (Author of “A serious call”, etc.) and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer an Incidental View of the Progress and Advancement of Literature in this Kingdom During Thelast Century and Biographical Anecdotes of a Considerable Number of Eminent Writers and Ingenious Artist with a Very Copious Index By John Nichols In Six Volumes Volume 1 9 written by and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literary Anecdotes Of The Eighteenth Century Comprizing Biographical Memoirs Of William Bowyer And Many Of His Learned Friends written by John Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
