Product Description: Few writers have achieved the synthesis of art and idea that was attained by John Milton in Paradise Lost. In that work the poet addressed one of the most important questions in philosophy and religion: How could God, if he is omnipotent and wholly good, have made a world in which there is so much evil? In this book Professor Danielson examines Paradise Lost, focusing on Milton's treatment of creation, chaos, predestination, free will, God's foreknowledge, the Fall of Man and the nature of human existence before the Fall...read more

Product Description: In readable and nonscholarly fashion, Niehaus, who is both a theologian and poet, provides a theological and literary analysis of the epic poems of Dante (Divine Comedy), Milton (Paradise Lost), Cowper (The Task), and Wordsworth. Niehaus also presents the theological background of great poetry and shows how that background illuminates our understanding of important topics such as creation, sin, hell, the devil, beauty, truth, redemption, and God supremely manifested in Christ...read more

Product Description: Pandit Birju Maharaj s foremost student Saswati Sen sketches the legendary Kathak maestro as a simple man  who also excelled as vocalist, painter, musician and teacher.

Product Description: Kristin LeMay traces the dimensions of Dickinson's spiritual life and tells the story of her own search for God between the lines of the poems that Dickinson called "hymns."

Product Description: Das Dictum von Martin Opitz, Dichtung sei ihrem Ursprung nach Verborgene Theologie, wurde in der zweiten Halfte des 18. Jahrhunderts erneut aktuell. Johann Caspar Lavaters Drama Abraham und Isaak (1776) macht den biblischen Stoff zum Exempel seiner unumstosslichen Gewissheit, der Mensch konne itzo noch mit Glauben und Gebet auf Gottes Entschlusse einwirken; in Friedrich Schillers Semele (1779) erweist sich die Frage nach der fur den Menschen glaubwurdigen Offenbarung Gottes als verborgenes theologisches Thema...read more

Product Description: This book tackles the problem of how God and humanity communicate truth to people in an indirect manner. The authors place Jesus' parable-telling activity into a broad context and demonstrate that parables were not the exclusive provence of Jesus but were used extensively by his Jewish leadership contemporaries many of who are immortalized in the Talmud and other Jewish classics...read more

Product Description: In recent decades, a group of second generation religious Zionist West Bank settlers have turned away from the collectivist political messianic ideology of the first generation of settlers and have begun to explore poetry as a mode of individual self-expression...read more

Product Description: Millions have bought into the theology of Paul Young, whose book The Shack portrays God as a loving, black woman. Similar changes in appearance were given to Jesus and the Holy Spirit. The story of pain and redemption then resonated with the public...read more

Product Description: Uses recent thought in continental philosophy and postmodern theology to interpret hidden and contradictory 'god-ideas' in texts of modernism such as Henry James's The Golden Bowl , Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time , James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man , and Arnold Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron ...read more

Product Description: In an anthology that is both scholarly and accessible to readers of contemporary poetry, David C. Jacobson examines the search for God in the work of six prominent Israeli poets―Yehuda Amichai, Admiel Kosman, Rivka Miriam, Zelda Mishkovsky, Hava Pinhas-Cohen, and Asher Reich...read more

Until the second half of the nineteenth century, the concept of the divine plays an obvious and major role in German literature. Through an analysis of twentieth-century German theatre, this book investigates continuities and discontinuities of this tradition. More specifically, it examines the modern estrangement from religious traditions coupled with the modern alienation from language. This work, however, reveals that there is also a continued divine presence on the stage in modernity, despite the general historical turn toward secular atheism. It deals with divine presence in the plays of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Wolfgang Borchert, Bertolt Brecht and Friedrich Dürrenmatt and analyzes their struggles with the limitations of language. The book demonstrates how these playwrights turn their skepticism toward language into a theatre where the stage becomes a playground for the divine.

"A wonderful book that makes a very big, new interdisciplinary argument. It will have as marked an effect on the field of medieval religious studies as anything published in the last few decades."--Nicholas Watson, Harvard University "Barbara Newman has always insisted upon the necessity of reading medieval culture as a text whose demands are matched by its rewards. . . . With

Product Description: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for American Primitive, Mary Oliver has published twelve books of poetry and five books of essays. Her poems are quoted in everything from Web sites to hymn books. Earthlight, a “Magazine of Spiritual Ecology,” has declared her an “earth saint...read more

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Product Description: This volume considers the emerging Jewish interest in an afterlife during the Second Temple period in relation to developing views of the deity and the self. In some circles God is understood as increasingly distant from the human sphere, and so justice must occur in another world or after death...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)