Wrestling with God: Literature & Theology in the English Renaissance : Essays to Honour Paul Grant Stanwood |
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While the present collection of essays honouring Paul Grant Stanwood does not purport to follow any theory of his as a thesis , they do present some considerations of various writers from his favourite period of English literature .
While the present collection of essays honouring Paul Grant Stanwood does not purport to follow any theory of his as a thesis , they do present some considerations of various writers from his favourite period of English literature .
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The difference between the earlier and the present lover is best indicated by his awareness that true beauty belongs to God , whose “ horrid " appearance on the cross expresses his love more clearly than anything else could do .
The difference between the earlier and the present lover is best indicated by his awareness that true beauty belongs to God , whose “ horrid " appearance on the cross expresses his love more clearly than anything else could do .
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Repeated references to Job , Elijah and other figures and events from the scriptural past show how the narrator re - creates the past in the present , creating meaning where it otherwise would have been absent , and pro viding for ...
Repeated references to Job , Elijah and other figures and events from the scriptural past show how the narrator re - creates the past in the present , creating meaning where it otherwise would have been absent , and pro viding for ...
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