Jesus

In 1924, the year that the Nationalists come to power through alliance with the Labour Party , Nathaniel is killed in a mine explosion and Evelyn comes to work as housekeeper for Harold and Julia...

The Yoga of Christ, or the Science of the Soul claims to illuminate, at least in part, the Truth, divine and living of Jesus 's words. These, it says, had for centuries lain hidden beneath...

This is the contentious core of the novel: that the seducer's sin of seduction is far graver than that of an innocent girl who lets herself be seduced. Ruth's faults are called venial errors...

The spiritual director of the nun Margaret Clement the younger seems not to have had much imaginative grasp on this family history, since ES represents him as astonished at the great courage and magnanimity which...

Cope makes free with the category Tumps (typically useless male poets), yet her poems to or about men are typically loving in tone: for her father, her husband, George Herbert (who is Dear George although...

Quoting several of the street ballads at length, AG argues that they are a means of recovering the suppressed history of Ireland, which having been forbidden in the national schools, has lifted up its...

The point of EW 's book is to relate her religious experiences. She follows a chronological path, interrupting herself on occasion to add something that she forgot to mention in its proper Place.

It takes on anti-semitic prejudice, making the point that Jesus Christ was a Jewish boy, even while Dinah Mulock also asserts that the days of religious persecution are over. She argues by way of...

The volume has two epigraphs: from Nigerian novelist Elechi Amadi and from Rainer Maria Rilke .Roselily presents a young, black, Missippi woman who, with strong misgivings, escapes her impossible circumstances by marrying a...

LLH approaches her subject with reverence and urgency. The Holy Mass is the most sublime action that the Church militant can offer to God. It holds out to believers the daily opportunity to enrich ourselves...

In a preface to a later edition of Anna Lombard, VC wrote: I endeavoured to draw in Gerald Ethridge a character whose actions should be in accordance with the principles laid down by Christ

This collection, wrote Waddell as translator, had no academic justification: it is arbitrary and unrepresentative of any author, or of any age. It reflected her despair during the months when the Second World War ceased...

In it Jesus comforts a mill-girl who is injured and dying after the terrible industrial accident.

A number of poems in this volume express sympathy with the losses and failures of humanity, or address the passage of time. Several concern religious observance: among these are two poems both bearing the title...

In another story for the same periodical, How June Found Massa Linkum, a slave child who has never heard of Christianity dies and is welcomed to heaven by both Jesus and President Lincoln (contradicting...