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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... frost , a " blonde Assassin , " beheads a " happy Flower , " a spectacle presided over by " an Approving God . " This tiny lyric , Keane shows , epitomizes the poet's embattled relationship . with the deity of her Calvinist tradition ...
... frost , a " blonde Assassin , " beheads a " happy Flower , " a spectacle presided over by " an Approving God . " This tiny lyric , Keane shows , epitomizes the poet's embattled relationship . with the deity of her Calvinist tradition ...
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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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... frost-God poem that foreshadows my main text, the 1884 “Apparently with no surprise,” another poem in which a flower is assaulted by an unseasonable frost apparently sanctioned by “an Approving God.” Emily Dickinson's Approving God ...
... frost-God poem that foreshadows my main text, the 1884 “Apparently with no surprise,” another poem in which a flower is assaulted by an unseasonable frost apparently sanctioned by “an Approving God.” Emily Dickinson's Approving God ...
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... Frost, a “blonde Assassin,” is overseen and sanctioned by “an Approving God.” My friend's response reflected his religious posi- tion, and something of mine. By way of full disclosure, I should say that we have both “evolved” (if not ...
... Frost, a “blonde Assassin,” is overseen and sanctioned by “an Approving God.” My friend's response reflected his religious posi- tion, and something of mine. By way of full disclosure, I should say that we have both “evolved” (if not ...
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... frost poems . In that poem , “ There is a flower that Bees prefer ” ( 380 ) , Dickinson notes the aspiration of both the hummingbird and the pollinating bee for this “ purple Democrat , ” the common clover . It is a “ sturdy little ...
... frost poems . In that poem , “ There is a flower that Bees prefer ” ( 380 ) , Dickinson notes the aspiration of both the hummingbird and the pollinating bee for this “ purple Democrat , ” the common clover . It is a “ sturdy little ...
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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