... examines the sequence of poems in Timoleon relating to religious belief and unbelief in order to understand the ultimate phase of the author's creative interrogation of the Judeo-Christian tradition, whose god had become increasingly conspicuous by his absence during the later nineteenth...

... not apply to lollard writers, any more than it will to Wyclif, for their biblical interpretations are just as devoted to uncovering the spiritual sense of scripture by means of the full range of interpretative methods available to them in the Christian tradition as those of any of their contemporaries...

... Philadelphia Inquirer Herman Melville Battle-Pieces Civil War Civil War poetry memorial poems commemoration pastoral elegy memorialization Christian tradition classical tradition Within the history of America’s wars, the Civil War dwarfed all previous records of mortality. Compared with roughly...

.... Emphasizing that, thanks to the logos located “in the beginning,” the death of God is part of the inner logic of the Christian tradition, the book argues that this same strand of reasoning also ensures that God will always “return” (often in new forms). Neither a defense of atheism nor a call to belief...

...This chapter discusses the Joban themes of Moby-Dick. The figures of Leviathan and Yahweh are symbolically linked both in the book of Job and in the mind of Melville's whaling captain who is shaped by the contours of Judeo-Christian tradition. Despite Bildad's initial introduction...

...This chapter discusses the escalation of the concept of God. Anselm of Canterbury, who is the most profound thinker in the Christian tradition of the first millennium after Origen, demonstrated that the concept on which he built his “ontological argument” did not satisfy the exacting criteria...