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The Charge of God: Laudato Si’ read through Chesterton, Wordsworth, and Hopkins by Hurley, Michael D

“…Abstract G. K. Chesterton, William Wordsworth, and Gerard Manley Hopkins are set in conversation with Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’ (2015), to show how far those…”
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Connectivity, Grounding, and Amplification: The Base-Line in Changing and its Functions by Berengarten, Richard

“…Abstract This essay is by the author of Changing (CH), ‘a composite poem … based closely on the Chinese Book of Changes’. Here, I explore the multiple…”
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What If God is a ‘Pagan Amalgam’: Marilynne Robinson and Historical Bible Scholarship by Douglas, Christopher

“…Abstract Marilynne Robinson is one of the most influential Christian writers and public intellectuals alive today, and her views on a range of topics should be…”
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Modernism, Nominalism, and the Hidden God in Samuel Beckett, Wallace Stevens, and David Jones by Tonning, Erik

“…Abstract The idea that human language is an inherently inadequate instrument for grasping reality is widespread in modernist literature. While the ‘radical…”
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Intersections of Forgiveness And ‘Queer Use’ In T.S. Eliot’s ‘Marina by Kundu, Tanya

“…Abstract Recent literary and theological accounts of forgiveness have appealed to the poetic as offering an ‘ambiguous’ space appropriate to the complex…”
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Correction to: The Inconspicuous God: Heidegger, French Phenomenology, & the Theological Turn , by Jason W. Alvis

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‘Blundering Brutuses’: Michael Field, Nonconformism, and The Politics of Social Purity by Murray, Alex

“…Abstract This article explores the contexts of nonconformism and social purity that underpin Michael Field’s (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper) verse drama…”
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Legal, Mythic, and Divine Violence: Post-secular Entanglements in Walter Benjamin’s ‘Toward the Critique of Violence by Holte, Stine

“…Abstract Walter Benjamin’s essay ‘Toward the Critique of Violence’ (1921) has in the past decades been central to important debates within post-secular…”
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‘Her body is Divided From Her Head’: Beheading and Biblical Intertextuality in Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam by Cadman, Daniel

“…Abstract Elizabeth Cary’s play, The Tragedy of Mariam (1613), culminates with the execution by beheading of the play’s protagonist on the orders of her…”
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The hard, bloodless surface of a mirror: Patricia Highsmith’s Kierkegaardian anatomy of anxiety by Adams, Don

“…Abstract This essay considers Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley novels in relation to the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard, which Highsmith knew and admired, and…”
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The modern spiritual affect of perplexed affirmation, or, the David Hume of R. S. Thomas by Wickman, Matthew

“…Abstract Long known as a poet of divine silence and Holy Saturday, R. S. Thomas is also a laureate of a modern spiritual affect we may describe as perplexed…”
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Religion, secularism, and postsecularism in Chinese internet literature by Ni, Zhange

“…Abstract Internet literature emerged in China in the 1990s and became commercialized in the early 2000s, with readers paying an access fee, which is split…”
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Music as preternatural in Geoffrey Hill’s poetry by Docherty, Tom

“…Abstract In Geoffrey Hill’s poetry, music, frequently tied to thoughts of the divine, is understood as preternatural: a gift from beyond (præter) the ordinary…”
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Uttering the Unutterable: Aristotle, Religion, and Literature , By Louis Groarke by Riggins, Michael A

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Blakean anti-wisdom in Thomas Merton’s proverbs by Myers, Ben

“…Abstract This paper explores William Blake’s reception in the work of the twentieth-century monastic writer Thomas Merton. The paper explores the way Blakean…”
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Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual Biography, By Holly Ordway by Umbrello, Steven

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Unfinished forgiveness: dynamics of Igbo cosmology and Christian theology in Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities by Livingstone, Justin D

“…Abstract Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities, a novel embedded in the Igbo traditions of Odinani, is acclaimed as a literary exercise in alternative…”
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After eco-theocide: the shift from ecological conservation to eco-theological conversation in Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain by Panda, Arnab, Mukhopadhyay, Anway

“…Abstract Challenging the ontological dualism of being and thing, the article underscores the constant movement of “energy” between these two categories by…”
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The ethico-religiousness of Atwood’s “God’s Gardeners” vis-à-vis Kierkegaard’s thought by Chou, Christine Hsiu-Chin

“…Abstract This study aims to ascertain the ethico-religiousness of “God’s Gardeners” in Atwood’s The Year of the Flood, an eco-religious cult featured by the…”
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Music as incarnated beauty in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion : a neoplatonic reading by Fishley, Daniel

“…Abstract In this study I examine key conceptual parallels between J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary imagination and a Neoplatonic mythopoetic. Specifically, I discuss…”
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