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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... Romantic tradition . Yet she only rarely refers in her letters to Keats and Wordsworth , and never to the other major British Romantics . Absence of evidence , however , is not evi- dence of absence . She is , as Harold Bloom has ...
... Romantic tradition . Yet she only rarely refers in her letters to Keats and Wordsworth , and never to the other major British Romantics . Absence of evidence , however , is not evi- dence of absence . She is , as Harold Bloom has ...
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... Romantic Literature , 134–40 . The future Mrs. Browning's “ On Mr. Haydon's Portrait of Mr. Wordsworth on Helvellyn ” responds to B. R. Haydon's famous 1842 oil painting . Taylor , A Sec- ular Age , 607. Though he rightly recognizes the ...
... Romantic Literature , 134–40 . The future Mrs. Browning's “ On Mr. Haydon's Portrait of Mr. Wordsworth on Helvellyn ” responds to B. R. Haydon's famous 1842 oil painting . Taylor , A Sec- ular Age , 607. Though he rightly recognizes the ...
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... Romantic poet whose work, I believe, helps to illuminate Dickinson's. The second potential objection is more substantive. Some may find in the two parts of the book halves that do not make a whole. My premise is that they are not ...
... Romantic poet whose work, I believe, helps to illuminate Dickinson's. The second potential objection is more substantive. Some may find in the two parts of the book halves that do not make a whole. My premise is that they are not ...
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... Romantic and Transcendentalist “ turn in theology ” ; and her recognition of the “ lim- its ” of that anthropocentric turn , especially her intuiting of the limits of Romantic “ optimism . ” Lundin is particularly interested in the his ...
... Romantic and Transcendentalist “ turn in theology ” ; and her recognition of the “ lim- its ” of that anthropocentric turn , especially her intuiting of the limits of Romantic “ optimism . ” Lundin is particularly interested in the his ...
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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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