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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... theory , not a fact , ” the Dover school board had tried to mandate the teaching of an “ alter- nate theory , ” Intelligent Design , as science . Federal District Court judge John E. Jones III — though a nonactivist conservative jurist ...
... theory , not a fact , ” the Dover school board had tried to mandate the teaching of an “ alter- nate theory , ” Intelligent Design , as science . Federal District Court judge John E. Jones III — though a nonactivist conservative jurist ...
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... theory of evolution. On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871) had considerable impact on religious communities in New England. Unlike Unitarian Boston and Transcen- dentalist Concord, the ...
... theory of evolution. On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871) had considerable impact on religious communities in New England. Unlike Unitarian Boston and Transcen- dentalist Concord, the ...
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... theory , suffering , and Dickinson's flower - and - 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 ...
... theory , suffering , and Dickinson's flower - and - 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 ...
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... theory that energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light. The leap from Emily Dickinson to Albert Einstein, who resorted to poetry him- self in order to express his loving admiration of Spinoza, seems less unlikely when we ...
... theory that energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light. The leap from Emily Dickinson to Albert Einstein, who resorted to poetry him- self in order to express his loving admiration of Spinoza, seems less unlikely when we ...
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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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