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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
In the anteroom of divinity	Feisal G. Mohamed	"In the Anteroom of Divinity focuses on the persistence of Pseudo-Dionysian angelology in England's early modern period. Beginning with a discussion of John Colet's commentary on Dionysius's twin hie…	OL13807255W
Jane Austen's Anglicanism	Laura Mooneyham White	In her re-examination of Jane Austen's Anglicanism, Laura Mooneyham White suggests that engaging with Austen's world in all its strangeness and remoteness reveals the novelist's intensely different p…	OL15538392W
Christian Worldview and the Academic Disciplines	Deane E. D. Downing	This book -- an edited compilation of twenty-nine essays -- focuses on the difference(s) that a Christian worldview makes for the disciplines or subject areas normally taught in liberal arts colleges…	OL16332640W
Besides the Bible	Dan Gibson	This book is a guide to the really great books that you "should" read - ones that matter. Covering a wide array of subjects and authors, from Christian bookstore bestsellers to classics of Christian …	OL16568888W
The Poetic Wonder of Isaac Watts	Douglas Bond	Isaac Watts (1674-1748) is known to history as "the father of English hymnody." In his lifetime, he wrote some 750 hymns, including "Joy to the World" and "When I survey the Wondrous Cross." Today, h…	OL17043318W
Believing again	Lundin, Roger.	In Believing Again Roger Lundin explores the cultural consequences of the rather sudden nineteenth-century emergence of unbelief as a widespread social and intellectual option in the English-speaking…	OL18685988W
Closet devotions	Richard Rambuss	Religion and sex, body and soul, sacred and profane: In Closet Devotions, Richard Rambuss traces the relays between these cultural formations by examining the issue of “sacred eroticism,” the literar…	OL1883021W
The Battle for Middle-earth	Fleming Rutledge	J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings has long been acknowledged as the gold standard for fantasy fiction, and the recent Oscar-winning movie trilogy has brought forth a whole new generation of fans. Ma…	OL1918758W
American literature for Christian schools	St. John, Raymond A.	Introduce your students to more than seventy authors in a study that connects the authors' lives and beliefs as revealed in their writings with the corresponding literary periods. Lessons examine Col…	OL2357215W
The endless kingdom	David Gay	"The Endless Kingdom studies the dynamics of biblical reading and interpretation in Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. Milton completed these three major poems after the Restorat…	OL2661787W
Idols of the marketplace	David Hawkes	LC classification (full) PR438.I36 H39 2001	OL2962478W
The Artificiality of Christianity	M. B. Pranger	Publisher's description: The writings of Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) reveal how the monastic mind, oscillating between hope and despair, was absorbed in technical exercises rather than in religi…	OL3458699W
Heroes of the city of man	Peter J. Leithart	"[Analyzes specific ancient epics and Greek dramas in the light of Christian beliefs. Ancient poets and playwrights discussed: Hesiod, Homer, Virgil, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes…	OL3923299W
American Catholic arts and fictions	Paul Giles	ix, 547 p. : 24 cm	OL4112964W
The Christian Wordsworth, 1798-1805	William Andrew Ulmer	"Recent scholarship on the British Romantic poet William Wordsworth usually depicts him as a secular humanist during the years of his creative ascendancy. In The Christian Wordsworth, 1798-1805, Will…	OL4446666W
The Brontës and religion	Marianne Thormählen	x, 287 p. ; 24 cm	OL445172W
Mito, exilio y demonios	Luis Rivera Pagán	xii, 173 p. ; 22 cm	OL565289W
Milton and the rhetoric of zeal	Thomas Kranidas	"Describes a rhetoric of radical excess that developed among the Puritan wing of English Protestantism during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and from which Milton's radically agressive style…	OL5719239W
Towards a Christian Literary Theory (Cross-Currents in Religion and Culture)	Luke Ferretter	"Most contemporary literary theory is atheistic. This book, by contrast, states the case for a literary theory which derives from Christian theology. It argues that it remains rationally and ethicall…	OL5819364W
Thornton Wilder and the Puritan narrative tradition	Lincoln Konkle	"Fresh examination of the works of Thornton Wilder emphasizing continuities in American literature from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. Sees Wilder as a literary descendant of Edward Tay…	OL5833895W