Download or read book Visions of Sodom written by H.G. Cocks and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book of Genesis records the fiery fate of Sodom and Gomorrah—a storm of fire and brimstone was sent from heaven and, for the wickedness of the people, God destroyed the cities “and all the plains, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.” According to many Protestant theologians and commentators, one of the Sodomites’ many crimes was homoerotic excess. In Visions of Sodom, H. G. Cocks examines the many different ways in which the story of Sodom’s destruction provided a template for understanding homoerotic desire and behaviour in Britain between the Reformation and the nineteenth century. Sodom was not only a marker of sexual sins, but also the epitome of false—usually Catholic—religion, an exemplar of the iniquitous city, a foreshadowing of the world’s fiery end, an epitome of divine and earthly punishment, and an actual place that could be searched for and discovered. Visions of Sodom investigates each of these ways of reading Sodom’s annihilation in the three hundred years after the Reformation. The centrality of scripture to Protestant faith meant that Sodom’s demise provided a powerful origin myth of homoerotic desire and sexual excess, one that persisted across centuries, and retains an apocalyptic echo in the religious fundamentalism of our own time.
Download or read book The Holy Bible written by Adam Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments Job to Solomon s Song written by and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Holy Bible written by and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments written by Adam Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Typographical Antiquities Or the History of Printing in England Scottland and Ireland Containing Memoirs of Our Ancient Printers Confiderably Augmented by William Herbert and New Greatly Enlarged by Thomas Frognall Dibdin written by Joseph Ames and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Typographical Antiquities Or the History of Printing in England Scotland and Ireland Begun by the Late Joseph Ames Considerably Augmented by William Herbert and Now Greatly Enlarged by the Rev Thomas Frognall Dibdin written by and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Typographical Antiquities written by Joseph Ames and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A four-volume work on the early history of printing, based on earlier books, and published between 1810 and 1819.
Download or read book The Holy Bible With a Commentary and Critical Notes by Adam Clarke A New Edition with the Author s Final Corrections written by and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Magnificent Collection of Printed Books the Property of the Rt Hon the Earl of Ashburnham written by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Milton and This Pendant World written by George W. Whiting and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milton and This Pendant World is an interpretation of the great English poet “in an age increasingly skeptical, in a culture dominated by the assumptions of the natural and historical sciences and by the illusions of progress and enlightenment.” Those are the words of the author of this book, George Wesley Whiting, an eminent and devoted Miltonian. Believing that Milton has a vital message for the modern world, Whiting has abandoned the usual pattern for examining a poet—study of versification, meter, and other poetic devices. Instead, he presents an exposition of the spiritual and moral meaning of Milton’s poetry, which can still have truth and beauty for this doubting age. The literary image of the pendant world was familiar in Milton’s seventeenth century, but is meaningless to most people of our day. The comforting picture of the world hanging from heaven on a golden chain signifies God’s close watchfulness over humanity and the inseparable bond which links us to the spiritual kingdom. The author declares that the search for God and the struggle to overcome the spiritual and material forces that impede the search represent the most vital of all human efforts; for unless this search is our primary motivation, life is without meaning, without final purpose. Whiting also observes that true Christianity stands not for the impoverishment of humanity and our enslavement to the Deity, but rather for human moral health, harmonious development, and spiritual welfare. In order to save civilization from destruction at the hands of its friends—secularists, specialists, militarists, and politicians—we must have a renaissance of the spirit, a cultural synthesis in which a revitalized religion, enriched by philosophy and science, renews the ideals of Christianity.
Download or read book Catholics Writing the Nation in Early Modern Britain and Ireland written by Christopher Highley and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern scholars, fixated on the 'winners' in England's sixteenth- and seventeenth-century religious struggles, have too readily assumed the inevitability of Protestantism's historical triumph and have uncritically accepted the reformers' own rhetorical construction of themselves as embodiments of an authentic Englishness. Christopher Highley interrogates this narrative by examining how Catholics from the reign of Mary Tudor to the early seventeenth century contested and shaped discourses of national identity, patriotism, and Englishness. Accused by their opponents of espousing an alien religion, one orchestrated from Rome and sustained by Spain, English Catholics fought back by developing their own self-representations that emphasized how the Catholic faith was an ancient and integral part of true Englishness. After the accession of the Protestant Elizabeth, the Catholic imagining of England was mainly the project of the exiles who had left their homeland in search of religious toleration and foreign assistance. English Catholics constructed narratives of their own religious heritage and identity, however, not only in response to Protestant polemic but also as part of intra-Catholic rivalries that pitted Marian clergy against seminary priests, secular priests against Jesuits, and exiled English Catholics against their co-religionists from other parts of Britain and Ireland. Drawing on the reassessments of English Catholicism by John Bossy, Christopher Haigh, Alexandra Walsham, Michael Questier and others, Catholics Writing the Nation foregrounds the faultlines within and between the various Catholic communities of the Atlantic archipelago. Eschewing any confessional bias, Highley's book is an interdisciplinary cultural study of an important but neglected dimension of Early Modern English Catholicism. In charting the complex Catholic engagement with questions of cultural and national identity, he discusses a range of genres, texts, and documents both in print and manuscript, including ecclesiastical histories, polemical treatises, antiquarian tracts, and correspondence. His argument weaves together a rich historical narrative of people, events, and texts while also offering contextualized close readings of specific works by figures such as Edmund Campion, Robert Persons, Thomas Stapleton, and Richard Verstegan.
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Conferences of the reformers and divines of the early English Church on the doctrines of the Oxford Tractarians held in the province of Canterbury Ed by a member of the University of written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
