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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... mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please,—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose dominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first ...
... mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please,—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose dominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first ...
Page xii
... mind pursuing an interest in a conversational way . ” She saw that basing a whole book on a single short poem was ... minds struggling with the question confronting Dickinson : “ the co - presence of God with unspeakable and unwar ...
... mind pursuing an interest in a conversational way . ” She saw that basing a whole book on a single short poem was ... minds struggling with the question confronting Dickinson : “ the co - presence of God with unspeakable and unwar ...
Page xiii
... mind here) I have stuck with it. But for the convenience of readers who happen to have the Franklin text, I include his numbers along with Johnson's in my Index of First Lines. Though the annotations differ in the Johnson and Franklin ...
... mind here) I have stuck with it. But for the convenience of readers who happen to have the Franklin text, I include his numbers along with Johnson's in my Index of First Lines. Though the annotations differ in the Johnson and Franklin ...
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... poetic and 1. Bloom , Genius : A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds , 345 ; Joanne Feit Diehl , Dickinson and the Romantic Imagination . even religious presence ; Elizabeth Barrett's description , in an Introduction 3.
... poetic and 1. Bloom , Genius : A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds , 345 ; Joanne Feit Diehl , Dickinson and the Romantic Imagination . even religious presence ; Elizabeth Barrett's description , in an Introduction 3.
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... mind a purpose , whether it be divine , malign , or even whimsically capricious . ” Of those who responded “ yes , ” emphasis fell on the human as well as the divine . One observed that “ the fact that we can ask such a ques- tion at ...
... mind a purpose , whether it be divine , malign , or even whimsically capricious . ” Of those who responded “ yes , ” emphasis fell on the human as well as the divine . One observed that “ the fact that we can ask such a ques- tion at ...
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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