Emily Dickinson's Approving God: Divine Design and the Problem of Suffering"Focusing on Emily Dickinson's poem "Apparently with no surprise," Keane explores the poet's embattled relationship with the deity of her Calvinist tradition, reflecting on literature and religion, faith and skepticism, theology and science in light of continuing confrontations between Darwinism and design, science and literal conceptions of a divine Creator"--Provided by publisher. |
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... Interpretation 205 Appendix : Derek Mahon's " A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford " 215 Bibliography 225 Index of First Lines 237 General Index 241 Dedicated to Michele Christy and, in particularly loving memory, to vi Contents.
... Interpretation 205 Appendix : Derek Mahon's " A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford " 215 Bibliography 225 Index of First Lines 237 General Index 241 Dedicated to Michele Christy and, in particularly loving memory, to vi Contents.
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... first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets,—most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and rep- utation; but he shuts the door to truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself ...
... first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets,—most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and rep- utation; but he shuts the door to truth. He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself ...
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... first time and I hope not for the last, the occasion that became the stimulus to this project. I am grateful for the encouragement and con- versation of several friends with whom I discussed these matters in the spring and summer of ...
... first time and I hope not for the last, the occasion that became the stimulus to this project. I am grateful for the encouragement and con- versation of several friends with whom I discussed these matters in the spring and summer of ...
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... First Lines. Though the annotations differ in the Johnson and Franklin editions, even here, at least for my limited purposes, which text we use makes little difference. That point is illustrated in the discussion, early in Chapter 1, of ...
... First Lines. Though the annotations differ in the Johnson and Franklin editions, even here, at least for my limited purposes, which text we use makes little difference. That point is illustrated in the discussion, early in Chapter 1, of ...
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... first, an attempt to account for contrasting responses to the Dickinson poem by a range of contemporary readers—students and adults. But whatever my initial attention to those responses and, later, to Dickinson scholarship, the present ...
... first, an attempt to account for contrasting responses to the Dickinson poem by a range of contemporary readers—students and adults. But whatever my initial attention to those responses and, later, to Dickinson scholarship, the present ...
Contents
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Einsteins Spinozistic God | 42 |
The Contemporary Debate | 58 |
Chapter 4 Design Challenged and Defended | 76 |
Chapter 5 Emily Dickinson on Christ and Crucifixion | 91 |
Apparently with no Surprise and Related Scenarios | 107 |
Chapter 7 Design and Accident | 118 |
Chapter 10 Flowers and Thoughts Too Deep for Tears | 160 |
Chapter 11 Questioning Divine Benevolence | 174 |
Believing and Disbelieving | 191 |
MultiPerspectivism in Interpretation | 205 |
Derek Mahons A Disused Shed in Co Wexford | 215 |
Bibliography | 225 |
Index of First Lines | 237 |
General Index | 241 |
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