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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... existence . Emily Dickinson asserted in the opening line of a poem that ends in bitterness : “ I know that He exists ” ( 338 ) . But if suffering did not preclude God's existence , it did raise the question of what kind of God he is and ...
... existence . Emily Dickinson asserted in the opening line of a poem that ends in bitterness : “ I know that He exists ” ( 338 ) . But if suffering did not preclude God's existence , it did raise the question of what kind of God he is and ...
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... existence , and outward to encompass the whole of that existence . ” This “ urge to connect is not an atavism . ” The “ temptation to break the self - imposed limits of the Great Separation ” and absorb political life into “ some larger ...
... existence , and outward to encompass the whole of that existence . ” This “ urge to connect is not an atavism . ” The “ temptation to break the self - imposed limits of the Great Separation ” and absorb political life into “ some larger ...
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... existence sixty years ago because of religious differences with predominantly Hindu India , a dispute played out in the long - contested province of Kashmir . It is estimated that some sixty million people would be killed in any all ...
... existence sixty years ago because of religious differences with predominantly Hindu India , a dispute played out in the long - contested province of Kashmir . It is estimated that some sixty million people would be killed in any all ...
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... existence . Though Emily Dickinson , little given to prayer , once told Samuel Bowles that she was praying to “ Alla ” to bring him relief from his intense sciatic pain ( L 382 ) , the Islamic God seems far removed from Dickinson's New ...
... existence . Though Emily Dickinson , little given to prayer , once told Samuel Bowles that she was praying to “ Alla ” to bring him relief from his intense sciatic pain ( L 382 ) , the Islamic God seems far removed from Dickinson's New ...
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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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