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... Christian imaginative apparatus much of the mythology of the classical world . But even this is to accept an over ... Christian writers of the Christian centuries . The Homeric gods had a different status from that of the Christian God ...
... Christian imaginative apparatus much of the mythology of the classical world . But even this is to accept an over ... Christian writers of the Christian centuries . The Homeric gods had a different status from that of the Christian God ...
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... Christian imaginings . But from at least as early as the sixteenth century we find a much more culturally exhibitionist use of non - Christian classical material , which had by now acquired a prestige and was handled by authors with a ...
... Christian imaginings . But from at least as early as the sixteenth century we find a much more culturally exhibitionist use of non - Christian classical material , which had by now acquired a prestige and was handled by authors with a ...
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... Christian faith , certainly shows that one can appreci- ate literature based on beliefs one does not share . None of the points I have just made or the examples I have given and will give destroys the case for the preliminary homework ...
... Christian faith , certainly shows that one can appreci- ate literature based on beliefs one does not share . None of the points I have just made or the examples I have given and will give destroys the case for the preliminary homework ...
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Adam Adam's antinomian argument argument from design Arnold beauty belief Book of Job Burns Burns's C.S. Lewis called Calvinist Canto century Christ Christian creed Dante Dante's darkness death deism divine doctrine earth Edwin Muir English eternal evil experience expression faith Fall feeling Gifford Lectures glory God's goes grace hast Heaven Hebrew Hopkins Hugh MacDiarmid human imagery images imagination innocent James Thomson Job's justice kind language lecture literature Lord MacDiarmid man's meaning Milton mind mood moral moving mystery Nature never night orthodox Paradise Lost paradox poem poet poet's poetic poetry praise Psalm reader reality religion religious Sangschaw Satan Scotland Scottish seems sense sing speech stanza Stevens suffering suggest symbolic tells Tennyson thee theodicy theology things Thomson thou thought tion tradition truth universe Victorian poet vision visionary voice W.B. Yeats Wallace Stevens Whitman wicked words