Jesus

ELL 's novel The True History of Joshua Davidson, later given the subtitle Christian and Communist, aroused fierce debate over its relation of the life of Jesus to contemporary conditions.

This pamphlet's original working title was What think ye of Christ? In the version published by Scott, AB remained anonymous, naming herself only the wife of a beneficed clergyman. A sequel was...

The essays in this volume date from 1977-1985 and cover a wide range of topics, including an autobiographical essay on Dyson's path to becoming a poet, an essay on Jesus , and a critical look...

In these two theological polemcs CT defends the right of the individual to interpret scripture for himself (or by implication herself), and the Christian orthodoxy of Locke , whom Holdsworth had accused of being a...

Judah's Lion expressed CET 's own particular views about Judaism: she believed that Jews could simultaneously accept Jesus Christ (and therefore reach salvation) and retain their specific cultural practices. Her respect for the Jewish people...

Having opened with a graceful rhetorical gesture towards womanly modesty and courtesy, EC proceeds to cast scorn on her antagonist's capacity and annihilate his arguments. The tone, as befits a polemic, is a good deal...

She invokes her subject as More like Jesus Christ than anyone I ever knew by way of apology for adding to the number of biographies. She charts her husband's life from childhood to death...

Among ET 's shorter poems, her forms include hymns, odes, fables (the magpie and the stork, the rose and the thorn), and blank verse. A poem on Richborough Castle near Sandwich has masses of historical...

DW revised some of her poems for their appearance here from earlier versions, and again she reshuffled poems from one grouping to another, deliberately ignoring chronology and making their textual history hard to unravel. Lenin...

This book traces Helena from her girlhood in England as the daughter of a Romanized British landowning family, through her marriage to an ambitious young Roman officer, to her successful search, as a widow, for...

A number of poems here are grouped in series, the centrepiece being The Furies (which, she said, was the reason that she decided not to wait but to publish the collection in her lifetime).

The poem's third part reveals some of the sources of MDF 's radicalism by looking forward to Christ 's reign on earth, which will seize power from Antichrist as the revolutionaries in France have seized...

At the time of the book's appearance, the prevailing attitude to mysticism was that it was fundamentally unchristian and ultimately descended from the Neoplatonists. Mysticism was judged to be a vestige of paganism, the...

The former essay began, Who and what is God, and whence his name? and the second ended, And so my idea of Jesus is that he was a Reformer, and has had a lot...

KT opens this volume (like her Ballads and Lyrics) with a prefatory poem that is modest, if not apologetic: A small monotonous song I sing, / My notes are faint and few. The...