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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... God Emily Dickinson's Approving God Divine Design. Patrick J. Keane Emily Dickinson's Approving God Divine Design and the Problem of Suffering Patrick J. Keane Emily Dickinson's Approving God Divine Design and the Problem of Suffering As ...
... God Emily Dickinson's Approving God Divine Design. Patrick J. Keane Emily Dickinson's Approving God Divine Design and the Problem of Suffering Patrick J. Keane Emily Dickinson's Approving God Divine Design and the Problem of Suffering As ...
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... God and science, is more intense today than at any time since the original impact of Darwinism in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Even so, contemplating a God- centered poem in the United States in 2007 turned out to have ...
... God and science, is more intense today than at any time since the original impact of Darwinism in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Even so, contemplating a God- centered poem in the United States in 2007 turned out to have ...
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... God permit so much unspeak- able misery in the world — disease , natural disasters , war ? Above all , why does he allow ... God's existence , it did raise the question of what kind of God he is and how we are to relate to him . Emily ...
... God permit so much unspeak- able misery in the world — disease , natural disasters , war ? Above all , why does he allow ... God's existence , it did raise the question of what kind of God he is and how we are to relate to him . Emily ...
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... God's cosmological design—against, not so much “evolution,” as a materialistic ideology he and other theists refer to as “evolutionism.” (Creationists try to smuggle religion into biology classes; atheists, it can be argued, try to ...
... God's cosmological design—against, not so much “evolution,” as a materialistic ideology he and other theists refer to as “evolutionism.” (Creationists try to smuggle religion into biology classes; atheists, it can be argued, try to ...
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... God are notcompatible, if neo-Darwinian natural science cannot be incorporated as part of God's eternal plan, how are we to perceive the universe? Is it the result of intelligent, beneficent Design, presided over by what Emily Dickinson ...
... God are notcompatible, if neo-Darwinian natural science cannot be incorporated as part of God's eternal plan, how are we to perceive the universe? Is it the result of intelligent, beneficent Design, presided over by what Emily Dickinson ...
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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