Christian Literature category: 2036 books
The Paranormal and Popular Culture
A Postmodern Religious Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Interest in preternatural and supernatural themes has revitalized the Gothic tale, renewed explorations of psychic powers and given rise to a host of social and religious movements based upon claims of the fantastical. And yet, in spite of this widespread enthusiasm, the academic world has been slow...
by Eleanor H. Porter, Stockton Mulford (Illustrated)
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Orphaned Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville with nothing but a joyous outlook on life that chooses to see the positive side of every situation. Her “Glad Game” begins to affect the lives of everyone around her. A bitter Aunt, a neglected precocious boy, an eccentric recluse, a confused minister,...
by Teresa of Avila
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013
You are indeed holding what is a masterpiece of spiritual literature. This work by Teresa of Avila has long been considered a monumental achievement, particularly given the trends, conditions of the surrounding under, which it was written, coupled with her own ailments during her life time....
God’s Patients
Chaucer, Agency, and the Nature of Laws
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
God’s Patients approaches some of Chaucer’s most challenging poems with two philosophical questions in mind: How does action relate to passion, to being-acted-on? And what does it mean to submit one’s will to a law? Responding to critics (Jill Mann, Mark Miller) who have pointed out the subtlety...
by Jeanne Murray Walker
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Sonnets are familiar to us, but not relevant. What do they have to do with our fast-paced, tech-driven, ever-shrinking contemporary world? But what if the sonnet—invented 700 years ago—could come back like a cat with nine lives? A sonnet in the twenty-first century might serve as a sacramental...
by B. L. Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
A compelling journey into the life of college professor, Brad Stanley, who unleashes a treasure of historical secrets, when he files a civil complaint against the world’s largest and most respected Bible committee. Not only does he gain the respect of his country, but he educates religious zealots...
by Charlotte Maria Tucker, Illustrator (Unknown)
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
This book starts at the end of a physical journey and ends with the beginning of a spiritual one. The Probyn boys, Adolphus and Constantine are going to live with a tutor and his family. The family consists of Mr. and Mrs. Roby,and their children, Aleck, Bertha and Laura. The Probyns are thoughtless...
A Sunday Reader
Illustrated Narratives from the Old and New Testaments
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Noah and the Ark, Isaac's blessing of Jacob, Jonah cast into the sea, and other immortal Bible tales are memorably retold in this splendid book of stories and pictures. Starting with Cain and Abel, the collection of ninety familiar and lesser-known vignettes includes Abraham's sacrifice, the plagues...
Goethes «Walpurgisnacht»-Trilogie
«Heidentum, Teufeltum, Dichtertum»
Language: German
Release Date: May 4, 2015
In diesem Buch wird erstmals der werkübergreifende Walpurgisnacht-Komplex von Johann Wolfgang Goethe in seinem literarhistorischen, poetologischen und ideengeschichtlichen Gesamtzusammenhang erschlossen. Dreimal hat sich Goethe im Laufe seines Lebens mit der Sage vom Hexensabbat auf dem Blocksberg...
by Michele Porcaro
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 29, 2016
“Il viaggio esprime un desiderio profondo di cambiamento interiore, un bisogno di esperienze nuove, più che di spostamento locale. Secondo Jung, testimonia una insoddisfazione che spinge alla ricerca e alla scoperta di nuovi orizzonti. […] Il viaggio nell’inferno rappresenta una discesa alle...
Quarto Meridiano
poesie per un amore perduto
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Poesie maturate nella splendida prigione di un castello, nel turbamento di una fine incombente.
L'angelo sigillato. L'ebreo in Russia. Alcune note sulla questione ebraica
Un romanzo breve e un saggio di Leskov
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 2, 2017
In questo volume vengono accostate due opere di Leskóv in apparenza lontane tra loro. La prima, L’angelo sigillato, è un racconto del 1873 e ha per tema le vicissitudini di un gruppo di vecchiocredenti. La seconda, L’ebreo in Russia, è un saggio del 1883 sull’antisemitismo. Che cosa le accomuna?
Leskóv...
by Manlio Simonetti, Emanuela Prinzivalli
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 8, 2013
L'opera, a firma di due tra i più importanti specialisti italiani della materia, costituisce uno strumento agile e denso per introdurre allo studio della letteratura cristiana antica. Presentata in seconda edizione rivista e ampiamente aggiornata, essa coniuga la chiarezza espositiva con un'accurata...
Wirkungszusammenhaenge
Neue Studien zu Edith Stein und Bernhard von Clairvaux, Cusanus, Rilke, Max Planck, der Oper und der Literatur
Language: German
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Das Buch versammelt Studien zu Edith Stein und Bernhard von Clairvaux, zu Rilke und dem Duineser Engel, zu Max Planck und der modernen Dante-Kosmologie, zur klassischen Oper und zu Nikolaus Cusanus sowie den ersten Nachtrag zur Literaturrezeption der späteren Karmelitin Edith Stein. Projektskizzierte...