... theology of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America to demonstrate how Kushner aligns the long theological history of spiritual revelation and textual exegesis with the performative associations of camp, the stylised heightening of otherness, citation, and irony central to contemporary gay culture...

... on patient capital, particularly in the varieties of capitalism literature, concentrates on institutions and public markets. In this paper, we take an entrepreneurial finance perspective to examine the investment attitudes and behaviours of business angels. These represent the biggest source of external risk...

... de la vida by Adolfo García Ortega and La vida antes de marzo by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón. Both authors resort to non-realist modes of narration, the former by turning his survivor protagonist into an angel and the latter by setting the confessional coming to terms with the attacks...

...This chapter compares the work of Wishman and Wakamatsu Koji, examining Wishman’s Double Agent 73/Deadly Weapon (1973, 1974) in conjunction with Wakamatsu’s contemporary works Season of Terror (1969) and Ecstasy of Angels (1972) and tracing how...

...This chapter recounts how, to promote the album GP (released in 1973), Gram Parsons assembled a band that he called the Fallen Angels. Phil Kaufman, whom Parsons had met through the Rolling Stones, was the tour's road manager. However, the tour's opening night in Colorado...

...This chapter focuses on the costumes of gender-bending performers affiliated with the San Francisco-based groups the Cockettes and its offshoot the Angels of Light, in the 1970s. These collectives were equal parts experiments in communal living, theater troupes, and active promoters of radical new...

...) and the open admission that sexuality is tough to portray onscreen while flirting with the screen version of Tony Kushner’s play Angels in America. At best, one could characterize Altman’s attitude toward LGBTQ+ sexuality on film as conservative. This assessment, though, does not account...

...This chapter explains that one of the prominent characteristics of the world that Maimonides consciously rejected is its angelology. There are a number of aspects of traditional beliefs about angels that Maimonides must have found hard to accept: their independence, corporeality, and vice-regency...

... was created, but in the remote mists of eternity. It also considers the levels of creation, wherein angels are naturally higher than men, but by the law of righteousness (iustitia) good men rank above wicked angels. The chapter covers the conflict between the goodness of nature and the malice...

... the good angels enjoy blessedness while the wicked angels experience misery lies in their varying attitudes to that praise. It seeks the possible reason for the perverse will that led to the secession of the wicked angels. It also mentions how Augustine first rejects the belief that the human race has...

...Chapter 13 uses the fifteenth-century Byzantine debate over the sex of angels to illustrate the bad faith arguments that characterize Stalin’s dogma in the Soviet Union and contemporary U.S. politics. In 1453, Constantinople fell to the Ottomans because the Byzantines were so preoccupied...

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... the Works of Nature, and excites not only Angels and Men, the noblest and most exalted Parts of the Creation, but also Brutes, Plants, and inanimate Beings, to pay a grateful Tribute of Praise to their bountiful Creator. Purpose Children Comprehends Inanimate Angels This content is only available...

...This chapter considers the importance of ideas of prelapsarian language to Hill's poetry. First, the gap between words and things is considered in relation to theories of Adamic language in Hill's early work. Next, the language of angels is considered as a means of imaginative access...

... ). Doolan, Gregory . “ Aquinas on the Demonstrability of Angels, ” in T. Hoffmann (ed.), A Companion to Angels in Medieval Philosophy (Leiden: Brill, 2012 ), 13–44. Doolan, Gregory . “Aquinas on Substance as a Metaphysical Genus,” in Doolan (ed...

...Rather surprisingly, Calvin's consideration of angels provides a window into his attitude to divine and human righteousness, divine power, human merit, and the Fall. It reveals his indebtedness to mediaeval discussions of angels, and also the originality of aspects of his treatment. The Chapter...

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...An introduction and translation of Tobit, one of the books of the Old Testament Apocrypha, which is set in Israel and Persia. It is a family drama with a fairy‐tale‐like quality; the characters are beset by evil demons and protected by angels who perform miracles in human guise...

... that they can be replicated in a dispassionate form in the intellective appetite, as a kind of intellectualized volitional response. None of the formulations of the ideal of a dispassionate passion is entirely satisfactory, but each is insightful enough to reward our attention. angels Augustine body delight...

... explores the poetics of Mather’s theory of correspondence—of analogies between heaven and earth, nature and human events, and his own expression of the later law of attraction. With Mather at home with apparitions and angels, the chapter shows how the idea of correspondence leads him to champion a “plastic...