The Relapse and Other Plays

The Relapse and Other Plays
Author: John Vanbrugh
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2004-10-14
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0192833235

The Relapse * The Provoked Wife * The Confederacy * A Journey to London * The Country House These five comedies on the theme of marital disharmony by the foremost Restoration playwright John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) are published in the Oxford English Drama series. The texts are freshly edited using modern spelling. There is a critical introduction, wide-ranging annotation, and an informative bibliography which together illuminate the plays' cultural context and theatrical potential for reader and performer alike. 'The series should reshape the canon in a number of significant areas. A splendid and imaginative project.' Professor Anne Barton, Cambridge University

Abraham Heschel and the Phenomenon of Piety

Abraham Heschel and the Phenomenon of Piety
Author: Joseph Harp Britton
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2013-10-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567218481

Piety is often regarded with a pejorative bias: a "pious" person is thought to be overly religious, supercilious even. Yet historically the concept of piety has played an important role in Christian theology and practice. For Abraham Heschel, piety describes the contours of a life compatible with God's presence. While much has been made of Heschel's concept of pathos, relatively little attention has been given to the pivotal role of piety in his thought, with the result that the larger methodological implications of his work for both Jewish and Christian theology have been overlooked. Grounding Heschel's work in Husserl, Dilthey, Schiller and Heidegger, the book explores his phenomenological method of "penetrating the consciousness of the pious person in order to perceive the divine reality behind it." The book goes on to consider the significance of Heschel's methodology in view of the theocentric ethics of Gustafson and Hauerwas and the post-modern context reflected in the works of Levinas, Vattimo, Marion and the Radical Orthodoxy movement.

A Companion to Anglican Eucharistic Theology

A Companion to Anglican Eucharistic Theology
Author: Brian Douglas
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 690
Release: 2011-11-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004219307

Anglican eucharistic theology varies between the different philosophical assumptions of realism and nominalism. This book presents case studies from the Reformation to the Nineteenth Century and avoids the hermeneutic idealism of particular church parties by critically examining the Anglican eucharistic tradition.

The Wilderness Journey and Thoughts on Parables

The Wilderness Journey and Thoughts on Parables
Author: Richard Pratt
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2017-01-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1326932357

The Wilderness Journey is the autobiography of Richard Pratt, a nineteenth-century miller and Strict and Particular Baptist preacher. First published in 1876, this book tells of Pratt's spiritual and temporal journey from his birth in 1816 up to 1875. Richard Pratt was troubled much by ill health and poverty; his temporal trials, including the tragic deaths of a daughter and a son, and his spiritual trials, including his calling to the ministry, are detailed in this account of his life's journey. First published in 1884, Thoughts on Parables is a series of expositions of the parables of Jesus, written by Richard Pratt. This new edition of the combined works includes footnotes to provide some background information and explanations to assist the modern reader. A brief Foreword, an Afterword and Appendices, including obituaries, letters, and two sermons, have also been added. Click on "View this Author's Spotlight" above to see more books from the same publisher.

The Wilderness Journey

The Wilderness Journey
Author: Richard Pratt
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2015-11-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1326359940

The Wilderness Journey is the autobiography of Richard Pratt, a nineteenth century miller and Strict and Particular Baptist preacher. First published in 1876, this book tells of Pratt's spiritual and temporal journey from his birth in 1816 up to 1875. Richard Pratt was troubled much by ill health and poverty; his temporal trials, including the tragic deaths of a daughter and a son, and his spiritual trials, including his calling to the ministry of God's word, are detailed in this account of his life's journey. This new edition includes footnotes to provide some background information and explanations to assist the modern reader. A brief Foreword, an Afterword and four Appendices, including obituaries, letters, and a sermon, have also been added. Click on "View this Author's Spotlight" above to see more books from the same publisher.

Satan and the Scots

Satan and the Scots
Author: Michelle D. Brock
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2016-05-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317059468

Frequent discussions of Satan from the pulpit, in the courtroom, in print, in self-writings, and on the streets rendered the Devil an immediate and assumed presence in early modern Scotland. For some, especially those engaged in political struggle, this produced a unifying effect by providing a proximate enemy for communities to rally around. For others, the Reformed Protestant emphasis on the relationship between sin and Satan caused them to suspect, much to their horror, that their own depraved hearts placed them in league with the Devil. Exploring what it meant to live in a world in which Satan’s presence was believed to be, and indeed, perceived to be, ubiquitous, this book recreates the role of the Devil in the mental worlds of the Scottish people from the Reformation through the early eighteenth century. In so doing it is both the first history of the Devil in Scotland and a case study of the profound ways that beliefs about evil can change lives and shape whole societies. Building upon recent scholarship on demonology and witchcraft, this study contributes to and advances this body of literature in three important ways. First, it moves beyond establishing what people believed about the Devil to explore what these beliefs actually did- how they shaped the piety, politics, lived experiences, and identities of Scots from across the social spectrum. Second, while many previous studies of the Devil remain confined to national borders, this project situates Scottish demonic belief within the confluence of British, Atlantic, and European religious thought. Third, this book engages with long-running debates about Protestantism and the ’disenchantment of the world’, suggesting that Reformed theology, through its dogged emphasis on human depravity, eroded any rigid divide between the supernatural evil of Satan and the natural wickedness of men and women. This erosion was borne out not only in pages of treatises and sermons, but in the lives of Scots of all sorts. Ultimately, this study suggests that post-Reformation beliefs about the Devil profoundly influenced the experiences and identities of the Scottish people through the creation of a shared cultural conversation about evil and human nature.

Before Jonathan Edwards

Before Jonathan Edwards
Author: Adriaan Cornelis Neele
Publisher: Paperbackshop UK Import
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2019
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0199372624

Early New England and the early modern era -- Jonathan Edwards and the Protestant scholastics -- Sources of Christian homiletics -- Sources of biblical exegesis: an ecumenical enterprise -- Sources of the formulation of doctrine: continuity and discontinuity? -- Sources of history as theology -- Conclusion and prospect