Christianity

The short memorial, which is only about ninety pages or so, details the death of a doctor, G. Reeve , who was dying of consumption and almost took his own life with poison to end...

HM stresses the equality of black people with white, not just in soul but in thought or mind and in feeling. She draws a parallel between pagan African religions and that of ancient Rome...

This story delivers a terrific kick. It centres on an unnamed woman who grew up in an oppressively Christian household, kept miserable by the suffering of Christ , whom she calls the Hanged Man. She...

Her postscript to the volume invokes Wordsworth as model (as, indeed, her title invokes the joint work of Wordsworth and Coleridge ). Her titles (like The Shepherd's Dog and The Poor, Singing Dame) copy...

Ill-fortune overtakes Elinor: someone else's need induces her to pawn her jewels and other possessions, thus bringing her into contact with Moses, a Jewish moneylender. Moses (who speaks with an accent: d for th,...

LHP 's source appears to be the romance titled The Life and Death of Muhammad, 1637, which until recently was ascribed to Sir Walter Raleigh . The Unfortunate Florinda traces the motive for the...

The focus of these volumes is explicitly the spiritual or religious aspect of life. FB was fascinated and repelled by the charisma and authoritarianism of the Catholic Church , attracted by the Swiss Free Church

In her final will and testament, AK bequeathed all her unpublished and incomplete manuscripts to Edward Maitland , who released them to the public in the years following her death. These included: a book of...

EW published an entirely new departure for him, a historical novel, Helena, about the mother of the Emperor Constantine , who converted her son to Christianity and is said to have discovered the cross...

In 1901 she contributed another introduction, this time to Joseph Joshua Green 's War: Is it or is it not consistent with Christianity ?, whose first edition, too, dated from this year.

In Bird of Paradise: Glimpses of Living MythMF , as her title implies, looks at traditional ways of presenting Christian faith, and at their compatibility with the contemporary world.

Judith Romilly progresses from an old and cramping belief onward to the next unfolding phase—to one tasting the joys of a loftier and more austere atmosphere through her encounters with the hero and...

MF herself supplies an introduction explaining the book's intention to address the narrower question of women's ordination and the broader question of the full evaluation of women within the Christian community. She deals briefly...

This book reflects MF 's wide reading and an impish sense of humour employed to help her and her readers live with the unacceptable. Each chapter comes headed by a very funny cartoon and a...

Le féminin et le sacré investigates the place of women in the domain of the sacred, and in various world religions. L'Incroyable besoin de croire argues that Christianity paved the way for humanism.