New World Metaphysics: Readings on the Religious Meaning of the American ExperienceGiles Gunn Oxford University Press, 4 jun 1981 - 482 pagina's From the days of discovery, when America was for Europeans more dream than reality, to our own days of disillusionment and faltering hope, poets, philosophers, historians, novelists, and theologians have drawn on religious themes and images to express the meaning of their encounter with America. Here, in more than one hundred selections, is the record of their quest for a New World metaphysics -- a spiritual vision or ultimate idea of order expressive of the American experience. |
Inhoudsopgave
PREPARATIONS 16071740 | 39 |
LOOMINGS 17401830 | 87 |
REALIZATIONS 18301915 | 167 |
REJECTIONS AND REVISIONS 19151950 | 337 |
RECOVERIES 19501980 | 403 |
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New World Metaphysics: Readings on the Religious Meaning of the American ... Giles B. Gunn Gedeeltelijke weergave - 1981 |
New World Metaphysics: Readings on the Religious Meaning of the American ... Giles B. Gunn Fragmentweergave - 1981 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
American appear atheism beauty believe body Boon called Chief Christ Christian church civil common consciousness death Deism divine doctrine earth Emily Dickinson ence eternal evil existence experience express eyes fact faith father fear feel give glory God's Goodman Brown H. L. Mencken hand hath heart heaven henotheism Herman Melville holy human idea ideal Indian Jesus Jonah knew Kobotsky land laws live look Lord Malcolm X man's Marianne Moore McCaslin meaning ment metaphysics mind monotheism moral nation nature Negro ness never night persons philosophy Pioneers prayer principle Puritan reason relation religion religious scripture seemed sense slaves social Social Gospel soul speak spirit stand sweet T. S. Eliot theology things thou thought tion true truth uncon unto virtue Walt Whitman whole wilderness words Young Goodman Brown
Populaire passages
Pagina xxiii - The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people. She was ours In Massachusetts, in Virginia, But we were England's, still colonials, Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
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