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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... Nietzsche, Daybreak If we love Flowers, are we not “born again” every day? —Emily Dickinson, Letters There is no new thing under the sun. —Ecclesiastes Acknowledgments My thanks to the friends, especially Dennis and Sylvia The whole ...
... Nietzsche, Daybreak If we love Flowers, are we not “born again” every day? —Emily Dickinson, Letters There is no new thing under the sun. —Ecclesiastes Acknowledgments My thanks to the friends, especially Dennis and Sylvia The whole ...
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... Nietzsche , and her poems and letters reflect Darwinian and other challenges to faith in an increas- ingly secular age . She rejected many of the tenets of her own faith , not least the doctrine of Original Sin ; and she seldom shirked ...
... Nietzsche , and her poems and letters reflect Darwinian and other challenges to faith in an increas- ingly secular age . She rejected many of the tenets of her own faith , not least the doctrine of Original Sin ; and she seldom shirked ...
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... Nietzschean sense that the old verities seemed no longer to hold . Those who died in the past “ Knew where they went . ” They went to “ God's Right Hand . ” But “ That Hand is amputated now / And God cannot be found— ” ( 1551 ) . I will ...
... Nietzschean sense that the old verities seemed no longer to hold . Those who died in the past “ Knew where they went . ” They went to “ God's Right Hand . ” But “ That Hand is amputated now / And God cannot be found— ” ( 1551 ) . I will ...
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... Nietzsche— “ contemporaries with whom she merits compari- son ” —Dickinson wrote about the loss of faith and “ bravely tried to calculate the cost . ” He places her closer to Dostoevsky than to Melville and Nietzsche in that , like the ...
... Nietzsche— “ contemporaries with whom she merits compari- son ” —Dickinson wrote about the loss of faith and “ bravely tried to calculate the cost . ” He places her closer to Dostoevsky than to Melville and Nietzsche in that , like the ...
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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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