Although Tolkien's letters call Samwise Gamgee the "chief hero" of The Lord of the Rings, Sam is easily underestimated by both readers and critics. Recovering Consolation focuses attention on Sam's...
This is a work of doing, of poesis, an enacting philosophy and theology through immediacy. It seeks to call to mind our original interrogative stance in Being, as did the Eleatic poem, the dialogic...
Theology and Poetry from Gregory Nazianzus to Scott Cairns
by Timothy E. G. Bartel
$22.00
£18.00
AU$34.00
ISBN: 9781666787900
Pub Date: January 2024
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pickwick Publications
Christian poetry was born at the crossroads of the Greek, Hebrew, Roman, and Syrian cultures of late antiquity. Pioneered by poets like Ephrem the Syrian, Gregory Nazianzus, and Prudentius, a uniquely...
In these lectures presented at Westminster Theological Seminary, Jack Miller integrates theology, literature, and modern culture as he discusses five of the most important European modern novelists...
As interest in Owen Barfield grows, we aim to meet the need for a scholarly introduction to his thought. Our primary purpose is to present an overview, analysis, and synthesis of Barfield's most salient...
"Everyone did what was right in their own eyes." This well-known indictment rumbles across the epilogue of Judges, denouncing God's people as wayward. Yet understanding the source of Israel's degenerative...
Spiritual Travelers in the Western Literary Tradition
by John C. Stephens
$25.00
£21.00
AU$37.00
ISBN: 9781666758733
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
This book explores the motif of the spiritual journey and its evolution in Western literature. A spiritual journey can be broadly defined as a search for the divine. Such a search can occur either internally...
Tolkien is one of our most beloved fantasy writers. Such was the power of his imagination that much has been written on his invented world, languages, and myth. This book is an invitation to tread the...
Contemporaries of English polymath Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) eulogized him as "a muse more choice than the nine muses" who "showered the age with frequent volumes" and "filled the world with works";...
You'll be doing all the work. You'll be picking apart plots, analyzing characters, exploring the setting of biblical narratives, and engaging with narrative levels and reader response theory. And you'll...
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