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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
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A IMPORTÂNCIA DO TEXTO LITERÁRIO
Ambiente, 2019 Partindo das propostas das Diretrizes Curriculares no Paraná (2008), no que se refere à Língua Estrangeira Moderna para o Ensino Médio, podemos observar que o texto é o pressuposto inicial para explorarmos as quatro práticas discursivas (oralidade ...
Andréa Luciane Buch Bohrer
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Duplicitous Remembrance: Confessing Self‐Deception with Augustine
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract While self‐deception has long been a topic of interest in psychology and analytic philosophy—and increasingly in the academic study of theology and religion—direct engagement with Augustine on self‐deception remains underexplored in contemporary scholarship.
Abraham S‐C Wu
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Excès et sacré dans la littérature victorienne et édouardienne
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2006 During the 20th century there was an explosion of literary forms like the magic realism of Salman Rushdie who dared to rewrite texts considered as « sacred » by some who tried to punish him for his transgressions but what about the 19th century ? How did
Annie Escuret
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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Climate Resilience and Sustainability, Volume 5, Issue 1, June 2026.Municipalities across the United States and the world face profound climate adaptation and mitigation challenges. To assess current engagement and future potential of various professional communities to communicate about and contribute to such efforts, we conducted 56 in‐depth interviews in Virginia with members of five communities of practice (elected
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, 2018 Edward Lear was an English artist, author, musician, and poet born in 1812. He has been dubbed by some the Father of Nonsense because of his use of literary nonsense throughout his work. The Edward Lear collection includes manuscripts and letters. One
Ballou, Jullianne
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 378-443, June 2026.Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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