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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... benevolent deity with evil in the world ? Examining Dickinson's perspectives on the role played by a supposedly omnipotent and all- loving God in a world marked by violence and pain , Patrick Keane initially focuses on her poem ...
... benevolent deity with evil in the world ? Examining Dickinson's perspectives on the role played by a supposedly omnipotent and all- loving God in a world marked by violence and pain , Patrick Keane initially focuses on her poem ...
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... . Frost, the Blonde Assassin 132 Chapter 9: Dickinson's Death-Haunted Earthly Paradise Chapter 10. Flowers, and Thoughts Too Deep for Tears 144 160 Chapter 11. Questioning Divine Benevolence Chapter 12. The Final Dialectic v Contents.
... . Frost, the Blonde Assassin 132 Chapter 9: Dickinson's Death-Haunted Earthly Paradise Chapter 10. Flowers, and Thoughts Too Deep for Tears 144 160 Chapter 11. Questioning Divine Benevolence Chapter 12. The Final Dialectic v Contents.
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... Benevolence Chapter 12. The Final Dialectic : 174 191 Believing and Disbelieving Conclusion : Multi - Perspectivism in Interpretation 205 Appendix : Derek Mahon's " A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford " 215 Bibliography 225 Index of First ...
... Benevolence Chapter 12. The Final Dialectic : 174 191 Believing and Disbelieving Conclusion : Multi - Perspectivism in Interpretation 205 Appendix : Derek Mahon's " A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford " 215 Bibliography 225 Index of First ...
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... benevolent . " Does the universe have a purpose ? ” The answers to that question , recently posed by the John Templeton Foundation to a dozen distin- guished scientists and scholars , ranged from no to yes , from unlikely , not sure ...
... benevolent . " Does the universe have a purpose ? ” The answers to that question , recently posed by the John Templeton Foundation to a dozen distin- guished scientists and scholars , ranged from no to yes , from unlikely , not sure ...
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... benevolent? In Emily Dickinson's era, as. -. in our own, the tension between faith and science centered on the controversy ignited by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection (1859) and The ...
... benevolent? In Emily Dickinson's era, as. -. in our own, the tension between faith and science centered on the controversy ignited by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection (1859) and The ...
Contents
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| 25 | |
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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