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David Daiches. separate from the question of God's existence , which Milton took for granted just as the authors of the Bible took it for granted . In the Psalms there is never any question of God's existence , apart from the remark at ...
David Daiches. separate from the question of God's existence , which Milton took for granted just as the authors of the Bible took it for granted . In the Psalms there is never any question of God's existence , apart from the remark at ...
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... question , which was simply this : We do not dispute God's existence or his power ; but what about his justice ? This was the question posed by the greatest of all the poets of theodicy , the author of that remark- able dramatic poem we ...
... question , which was simply this : We do not dispute God's existence or his power ; but what about his justice ? This was the question posed by the greatest of all the poets of theodicy , the author of that remark- able dramatic poem we ...
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... questions are answered by - almost , one might say , are sub- sumed in - natural description . What emerges is that the only real answer to Job's question is that there is no answer . The universe is more complicated than man can ever ...
... questions are answered by - almost , one might say , are sub- sumed in - natural description . What emerges is that the only real answer to Job's question is that there is no answer . The universe is more complicated than man can ever ...
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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