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Journal articles on the topic "Protestantism and literature"

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Yarotskiy, Petro. "Protestantism as a Subject of Religious Studies." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 40 (October 24, 2006): 171–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2006.40.1807.

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In the last 15 years, in the conditions of independent Ukraine, the study of Protestantism has taken on new qualitative dimensions. The scientific and objectivity of the study was ensured through the use of a source base (Protestant German and Polish-language literature of the 16th - 17th centuries), review and critical literature of the 19th - 20th centuries. (foreign and Ukrainian researchers of Protestantism), access to archival documentation (Russian, Polish, Soviet, including KGB archives, other state institutions on religious affairs). Over the same years, a new cohort of Ukrainian Protestantism scholars has been formed, which has had ample opportunity to use these benefits to unconventionally and truthfully treat Protestantism as a religious (not party ideologically or religiously biased) subject of study.
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Herreros, Alfonso. "A Case Study of the Reception of Aristotle in Early Protestantism: The Platonic Idea of the Good in the Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics." Renaissance and Reformation 43, no. 3 (December 21, 2020): 41–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/rr.v43i3.35301.

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The present article examines the philosophical ethics of Protestants teaching in higher education during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and their reception of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, 1.6. Two theses are illustrated. First, the survey of fourteen commentaries shows clear parallels with the medieval interpretation of the Ethics, which the Protestant authors creatively expanded. Thus, the continuity of Protestantism with the earlier tradition of Christian philosophy is substantiated in this specific case for a representative group of authors. Second, over against the prejudices according to which Protestantism simply censured ethics and subsumed it into moral theology, this article shows that, in truth, Aristotle was still the fundamental philosophical reference in a topic as central as the definition of happiness, and that the Platonic “theological” alternative was not considered appropriate for a philosophical discipline.
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Stasyuk, L. O. "Nyahovsky teachings as a monument of pro-reform literature." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 30 (June 29, 2004): 45–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2004.30.1506.

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The activities of early Protestantism have been sufficiently researched, especially nowadays. But most of the works are mostly about his penetration into the Ukrainian land and adaptation to new socio-historical conditions. Unfortunately, the original base of early Protestantism, in particular Calvinism, has not been practically studied, though we have preserved two particularly noteworthy testimonies of Ukrainian Calvinists. One of them is the Gospel teachings that emerged in the sixteenth century. in Transcarpathia in the village of Nyagovo of the present Tyachiv district. The monument is so unexplored that even the Calvinist content is expressed in the scientific literature. In this connection, we set ourselves the task of analyzing the content of this monument and bringing it to Calvinism, that is, to reformation.
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Young, Samuel L. "Waldensianism Before Waldo: The Myth of Apostolic Proto-Protestantism in Antebellum American Anti-Catholicism." Church History 91, no. 3 (September 2022): 513–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640722002116.

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Between 1820 and 1850, American presses generated an enormous amount of literature devoted to the myth of apostolic Waldensianism. Though the Waldenses began as a lay reform movement in the twelfth century, speculations about their apostolic origin were popularized in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This historical construction gave American Protestants a versatile rhetorical weapon against an increasingly encroaching Roman Catholicism. The apostolicity of Waldensianism allowed Protestants to trace their teachings not only to scripture but through the middle ages and the early church, providing a ready answer to Catholic accusations of Protestant novelty. Additionally, re-narrating the history of Waldensian persecution at the hand of Catholics reinforced nativist conceptions of Catholicism as a violently tyrannical religion, and became a call to action for Protestants to resist Rome's attempt to gain power in the United States. Though the myth of apostolic Waldensianism was widely held by American Protestants, by 1850 it became largely untenable. Historians on both side of the Atlantic contextualized the group as a medieval phenomenon, rather than the remnant of apostolic Protestantism.
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Aguilar, Edwin Eloy, José Miguel Sandoval, Timothy J. Steigenga, and Kenneth M. Coleman. "Protestantism in El Salvador: Conventional Wisdom versus Survey Evidence." Latin American Research Review 28, no. 2 (1993): 119–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0023879100037420.

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Protestantism has grown strikingly throughout Latin America in the last two decades. Estimating such growth is hazardous in the absence of firm national survey data, but the phenomenon is clearly embracing sizable segments of national populations. In Guatemala, estimates of Protestants in the national population ranged from 20 to 25 percent by the early 1980s, with more recent estimates approaching 30 percent.
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Kirk, James. "The ‘Privy Kirks’ and their Antecedents: The Hidden Face of Scottish Protestantism." Studies in Church History 23 (1986): 155–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400010597.

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The history of Scottish protestantism as a clandestine, underground movement can be traced, albeit unevenly, over three decades from parliament’s early ban on Lutheran literature in 1525 to the protestant victory of 1560 when, in disregard of the wishes of its absent queen then resident in France, parliament finally proscribed the Latin mass and the whole apparatus of papal jurisdiction in Scotland and adopted instead a protestant Confession of Faith. Out of a loosely-defined body of beliefs in the 1530s, ranging from a profound dissatisfaction at ecclesiastical abuse (shared by those who remained Catholic), to a recognition of the need for a reformation in doctrine (less readily conceded by orthodox Catholics), Scottish protestantism by the 15 50s had developed a cellular organisation, enabling it to survive periodic persecution. Early protestants, themselves brought up within the Catholic church as baptised and communicating members, by the 1550s had taken the agonising and momentous step of separating themselves from the fellowship of the established church by forming their own separate communities of believers, worshipping in secret and centred on the privy kirks which arose in the years immediately preceding the Reformation.
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Davies, Michael. "Introduction: Shakespeare and Protestantism." Shakespeare 5, no. 1 (April 2009): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17450910902764256.

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Coleman, Dawn. "Fathers, Mothers, Saints, Martyrs: Religion as a Lineage of Belief." Modern Language Quarterly 83, no. 4 (December 1, 2022): 481–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00267929-10088718.

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Abstract Critiquing the literary-critical habit of approaching religion primarily in terms of individual belief, this essay proposes that the sociologist Danièle Hervieu-Léger’s definition of religion as a “lineage of belief” can reorient literary scholars to religion’s investment in its own survival and reproduction. Hervieu-Léger’s model emphasizes that religious institutions ensure their continuity by negotiating intracommunity conflict and intergenerational transformations. Building on this model, the essay argues that literary texts participate in religion’s collective memory and self-definition, then illustrates this point by demonstrating how Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Oldtown Folks (1869) creates a bildungsroman-like narrative to shape the story of Protestantism’s Anglican-Puritan branch from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Although this representation is political in that it reinforces Protestantism as integral to American identity, Oldtown Folks prioritizes the vibrancy and longevity of Anglo-American Puritanism and Episcopalianism as relatively autonomous, family- and community-based institutions that maintain complex relationships to state violence and imperialism. For instance, while Oldtown Folks endorses Protestantism’s collaboration with North American settler colonialism, it also challenges the efficacy and desirability of the Congregational Church’s South Seas missionary work.
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Jochemsen, Henk. "The Relationship between (Protestant) Christianity and the Environment is Ambivalent." Philosophia Reformata 83, no. 1 (May 19, 2018): 34–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23528230-08301001.

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In his contribution to this special issue, Michael Northcott argues that there is a historic association between Protestant cultures and the origins of environmentalism. It seems to me, however, that the connection between Protestantism and environmentalism is more complicated and ambivalent than the positive relation he highlights. In this paper, I will problematize that relation on the basis of various theoretical and empirical contributions in the literature on religion and environmentalism. Different positions in this regard within Protestantism will be identified and related to theological positions and the historic impact of Protestantism on culture. In the final section, the impact of environmental degradation on the (global) poor will be highlighted, which leads to the identification of a tension between an orthodox/evangelical Protestant stance towards the poor and towards the environment.
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Mumayiz, Ibrahim. "Spenserian Images of Catholicism In Book I of The Faerie Queene." International Journal of Arabic-English Studies 7, no. 1 (January 1, 2006): 29–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.33806/ijaes2000.7.1.2.

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Due to the continuously hostile Elizabethan-Papal relations which persisted throughout Elizabeth's reign (/558-1603) and covered Spenser's entire lifetime, Spenser nurtured pejorative images of Catholicism of a monstrously graphic nature. In Book I of The Faerie Queene, Papal-led Catholicism was regarded as being satanic evil. This evil Catholicism was used by Protestantism to define and defend itself. Spenser's vilifying views of Catholicism are expressed through the character of Archimago, who represents all what Protestants like Spenser saw in Catholicism such as pilgrimages, falsity, magical practices, hypocrisy, deception, and disguise. These accusations were based on what Protestants saw in the behavior of "Church Papists". The paper also puts forward the view that Archimago was a Jesuit, probably Robert Persons, the arch Jesuit that the black insects, flies, and sprites in Book I refer to Catholic missionary priests sent by the Pope and the Jesuits secretly into England..
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Lucas, Kristin. "Literature, protestantism, and the idea of community." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85185.

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The Protestant community is articulated through liturgy, history, and drama. Liturgy teaches communal bonds and scripts their enactment, while narrative and dramatic depictions of the collective past appeal to the imagination of readers and viewers. Liturgy and literature are joined by the participation they invite, which engages parishioners, readers, and audiences with questions of affiliation and collectivity. Lack of attention to the ways Renaissance texts pondered over and produced bonds of commonality has sidetracked us from the communal nature of the period. We need to reevaluate such bonds to better understand how English culture imagined relationships between individual and community, and between people and institutions---including church and theatre. When orthodox writing is treated as doctrine and praxis, and not as a means for political indoctrination, we gain a different understanding of the potential for human relationships, one more generous and reciprocal than the model of coercion that has dominated literary studies. Such reciprocity is found in Church of England liturgy, and in the imaginative space of Foxe's Acts and Monuments, which seeks to forge the Protestant community through an ethics of reading. Imaginative space was also a public space, and Shakespeare's King John and Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris reflect upon religious affiliation in moments of war and atrocity; both plays represent very tangled lines of identification that do not endorse Catholic-Protestant factions but undo them. Religious writing and public theatre explored the precarious balance between community and individual, offering readers and audiences a vehicle for thinking about their own immediate lives and their sense of belonging.
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Reynolds, Paige Martin. "Reforming Ritual: Protestantism, Women, and Ritual on the Renaissance Stage." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5439/.

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My dissertation focuses on representations of women and ritual on the Renaissance stage, situating such examples within the context of the Protestant Reformation. The renegotiation of the value, place, and power of ritual is a central characteristic of the Protestant Reformation in early modern England. The effort to eliminate or redirect ritual was a crucial point of interest for reformers, for most of whom the corruption of religion seemed bound to its ostentatious and idolatrous outer trappings. Despite the opinions of theologians, however, receptivity toward the structure, routine, and familiarity of traditional Catholicism did not disappear with the advent of Protestantism. Reformers worked to modify those rituals that were especially difficult to eradicate, maintaining some sense of meaning without portraying confidence in ceremony itself. I am interested in how early Protestantism dealt with the presence of elements (in worship, daily practice, literary or dramatic representation) that it derogatorily dubbed popish, and how women had a particular place of importance in this dialogue. Through the drama of Shakespeare, Webster, and Middleton, along with contemporary religious and popular sources, I explore how theatrical representations of ritual involving women create specific sites of cultural and theological negotiation. These representations both reflect and resist emerging attitudes toward women and ritual fashioned by Reformation thought, granting women a particular authority in the spiritual realm.
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Willis, Jonathan Peter. "Church music and Protestantism in post-Reformation England : discourses, sites & identities." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2297/.

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This thesis is an interdisciplinary examination of the role religious music played in the formation of Protestant religious identities during the Elizabethan phase of the English Reformation. It is allied with current post-revisionist trends in seeking to explain how the population of sixteenth-century England adjusted to the huge doctrinal upheaval of the Reformation. It also seeks to move post-revisionism onwards, by suggesting that the synthetic patchwork of beliefs which emerged during the English Reformation was nonetheless distinctively Protestant, and that we must redefine our notion of what it actually meant to be Protestant in the context of post-Reformation England. The first of three sections, ‘Discourses’, explores the classical and religious discourses which underpinned sixteenth-century understandings of music, and its use in religious worship. Chapter one investigates the strengthening and importance of neo-classical notions of speculative music during the Renaissance, while chapter two explores how these notions affected the way Protestant reformers thought about, wrote about, and used music in public worship. Section two, ‘Sites’, looks at the practice of Church music in the parish and the cathedral church. Chapter three uses qualitative and quantitative data from churchwardens’ accounts to document changing patterns of musical expenditure in the Elizabethan parish, while chapter four focuses on the cathedral, and challenges received notions about the supposed dichotomy between parish and cathedral worship practices. The third and final section, ‘Identities’, shifts its attention to the people of Elizabethan England, and the ways in which music both served and shaped the processes of religious identity formation. Chapter five looks at music as a tool of pedagogy, propaganda and devotional piety, in church, schoolroom and home, while chapter six concentrates on the ways in which Church music both reinforced and complicated notions of communal and individual identity, acting as a source of both harmony and discord.
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Macbeth, Georgia School of Theatre Film &amp Dance UNSW. "A Plurality of Identities: Ulster Protestantism in Contemporary Northern Irish Drama." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Theatre, Film and Dance, 1999. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/33257.

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This thesis examines the ways in which Ulster Protestant identity has been explored in contemporary Northern Irish drama. The insecurity of the political and cultural status of Ulster Protestants from the Home Rule Crises up until Partition led to the construction and maintenance of a distinct and unified Ulster Protestant identity. This identity was defined by concepts such as loyalty, industriousness and ???Britishness???. It was also defined by a perceived opposite ??? the Catholicism, disloyalty and ???Irishness??? of the Republic. When the Orange State began to fragment in the late 1960s and early 1970s, so did notions of this singular Ulster Protestant identity. With the onset of the Troubles in 1969 came a parallel questioning and subversion of this identity in Northern Irish drama. This was a process which started with Sam Thompson???s Over the Bridge in 1960, but which began in earnest with Stewart Parker???s Spokesong in 1975. This thesis examines Parker???s approach and subsequent approaches by other dramatists to the question of Ulster Protestant identity. It begins with the antithetical pronouncements of Field Day Theatre Company, which were based in an inherently Northern Nationalist ideology. Here, the Ulster Protestant community was largely ignored or essentialised. Against this Northern Nationalist ideology represented by Field Day have come broadly revisionist approaches, reflecting the broader cultural context of this thesis. Ulster Protestant identity has been explored through issues of history and myth, ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality. More recent explorations of Ulster Protestantism have also added to this diversity by presenting the little acknowledged viewpoint of extreme loyalism. Dramatists examined in this thesis include Stewart Parker, Christina Reid, Frank McGuinness, Bill Morrison, Ron Hutchinson, Marie Jones, Graham Reid, Robin Glendinning and Gary Mitchell. The work of Charabanc Theatre Company is also discussed. What results from their efforts is a diverse and complex Ulster Protestant community. This thesis argues that the concept of a singular Ulster Protestant identity, defined by its loyalty and Britishness, is fragmented, leading to a plurality of Ulster Protestant identities.
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Bessa, Daniela Borja. "Literatura de auto-ajuda cristã: em busca da felicidade ainda na terra e não só para o céu." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2008. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/2072.

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The theme of this thesis is about Christian Self-Help Literature. The research was motivated by the following general objectives: to understand the presuppositions of self-help genre; to identify a possible relationship between Secular Self-help Literature and Christian Self-Help Literature; to verify a role of Self-Help Literature among Protestant Christians. The study of Christian Self-help Literature was elected because it is a genre in expansion since 1980s as a relevant segment of evangelical publishing market. From American writers, such literature has linked religious and psychological discourse by using biblical verses and psychological technical terms from Transpersonal, Humanist and Positive Psychology and also it has achieved great respectability among Evangelical Christians. The hypothesis that supported its investigation is that Christian Self-Help Literature is received by Christians as a welcome initiative once it links psychological and religious discourse and it contributes to humanization of its readers as instrument which promotes emotional and spiritual health. In order to verify such hypothesis, the thesis was divided in two major blocks or parts. In the first block, social and psychological influences which have impacted Self- Help literature are analyzed. In the second block, the Christian Self-help is analyzed. As it was intended by this thesis, to verify what has provoked such Christian Self-Help Literature on its Christian readers, a research was carried with Evangelical Christians from Belo Horizonte and neibouring cities. The books with more indications in the research were analyzed in the final chapter. It could be perceived that Christian Self-Help Literature, in opposite way to Secular Self-Help Literature, which is seen as prejudicial and abusive, was considered as contributive to personal growth and spiritual development. In other words, the research has pointed out a positive role of Christian Self-Help Literature as a perception of evangelical community
Esta tese tem como tema a literatura de auto-ajuda cristã. Os objetivos gerais que motivaram a pesquisa foram: compreender os pressupostos do gênero auto-ajuda, relacionar literatura de auto-ajuda secular e literatura de auto-ajuda cristã, verificar o papel que a literatura de auto-ajuda desempenha junto aos cristãos protestantes. Buscou-se estudar a literatura de auto-ajuda cristã por ser um gênero em expansão a partir dos anos 80 e ser um segmento importante do mercado editorial evangélico. Formada de escritos de norte-americanos, essa literatura une os discursos religioso e psicológico, através do uso de versículos bíblicos e termos da Psicologia Humanista e Psicologia Positiva e alcança respeitabilidade entre os evangélicos. A hipótese que sustenta esse trabalho é que a literatura de auto-ajuda cristã apropriada pelos cristãos, ao unir os discursos psicológico e religioso, contribui para a humanização de seus leitores, tornando-se instrumento promotor de saúde emocional e espiritual. Para verificar esse hipótese, esse trabalho foi dividido em dois grandes blocos: no primeiro, observaram-se as influências social e psicológica recebidas pela literatura de auto-ajuda, e, no segundo, analisou-se a auto-ajuda cristã. No intuito de verificar as influências da literatura de auto-ajuda cristã sobre seus leitores, foram realizadas pesquisas com evangélicos de Belo Horizonte e das cidades circunvizinhas. Os livros mais mencionados por eles foram objeto de análise ao final da tese. Percebeu-se que a literatura de auto-ajuda cristã, ao contrário da literatura de auto-ajuda secular, vista como prejudicial e espoliadora, contribui tanto para o crescimento pessoal, quanto para o desenvolvimento da espiritualidade, desempenhando, portanto, um papel positivo junto à comunidade evangélica
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Kim, Hoyoung. "Edmund Spenser as Protestant Thinker and Poet : A Study of Protestantism and Culture in The Faerie Queene." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278683/.

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The study inquires into the dynamic relationship between Protestantism and culture in The Faerie Oueene. The American Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr makes penetrating analyses of the relationship between man's cultural potentials and the insights of Protestant Christianity which greatly illuminate how Spenser searches for a comprehensive religious, ethical, political, and social vision for the Christian community of Protestant England. But Spenser maintains the tension between culture and Christianity to the end, refusing to offer a merely coherent system of principles based on the doctrine of Christianity.
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Brewer, Lawton A. "The Function of Religion in Selected Novels of George Gissing." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/60.

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ABSTRACT George Gissing has experienced a fluctuating reputation among critics in the period of over one hundred years since his death in 1903. Curiously, during the last decade of his life, many critics put Gissing on a par with Thomas Hardy and George Meredith among writers living at that time. Early in his career, however, his reputation suffered from the notion that Gissing was simply a naturalist with a pessimistic, atheistic streak. To some extent, this appraisal has some merit. Gissing pronounced himself an unbeliever to family and to acquaintances such as Fredrick Harrison as early as 1880. Nonetheless, Gissing maintained an interest in religion throughout his life, a fact made plain by his use of religious material in his novels. Furthermore, he was far from merely dismissing religion, nor did he adopt a uniformly unsympathetic view of belief. My dissertation will demonstrate that, starting with his first published novel, Gissing made extensive use of religious subject matter in the form of imagery, symbolism, plot elements, and characterization. More significantly, he also examined the relationship between religion and capitalism. Often, one detects in Gissing’s work a sense of what I will call economic Calvinism, an idea that has received extensive explication by Max Weber and others. I will show that Gissing’s characters are often divided into class and economic lines, a fact not in itself particularly novel, but one which finds expression in Gissing in terms very evocative of the Christian division of humanity into categories of damned and saved. I will also reveal patterns in Gissing’s work that depict the ongoing dialogue between religious issues and other social concerns such as feminism, philanthropy, poverty, church affiliation, philosophy, and marriage. The dissertation covers selected novels from roughly the first half of Gissing’s career in an attempt to bring to light the pervasiveness of religious reference in a representative assortment of Gissing’s work. My paper will show that more concentrated attention to the use of religion in Gissing will contribute to a greater understanding of him as an artist. It will also suggest that more study in this area needs to be done.
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Scott-Coe, Justin M. "Covenant Nation: The Politics of Grace in Early American Literature." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/45.

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The argument of this dissertation is that a critical reading of the concept of "covenant" in early American writings is instrumental to understanding the paradoxes in the American political concepts of freedom and equality. Following Slavoj Zizek's theoretical approach to theology, I trace the covenant concept in early American literature from the theological expressions and disputes in Puritan Massachusetts through Jonathan Edwards's Freedom of Will and the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, showing how the covenant theology of colonial New England dispersed into more "secular" forms of what may be called an American political theology. The first chapter provides an overview of recent attempts to integrate theology and theory, specifically comparing Jacques Derrida and Zizek to better understand the latter's theology of materialism which relies on as well as informs the Reformed Protestant covenantal dichotomy of grace and works. The second chapter establishes the complicated architecture of the covenant concept within seventeenth-century New England Reformed Protestantism, and uses church membership transcripts along with Ann Hutchinson court trial documents to demonstrate how this inherently unstable theology created unintended slippage between God's grace and mankind's works, resulting in a theological formulation remarkably open to Zizek's analysis of political ideology. The third chapter demonstrates how Jonathan Edwards, through his ingenious counter-argument in Freedom of Will, provides a theoretical foundation for an uneasy but necessary alignment of the covenants of works and grace, releasing the subjunctive potential of grace to operate through history as a predeterminer of meaning and, potentially, freedom. In the last chapter, I argue that Emerson finally converts the covenant from a politically conceptualized theological framework for radical grace into a personal institutionalization of grace itself. Stanley Cavell's exploration of Emerson's "constitution" in light of the covenant motif demonstrates the political (im)possibilities inherent in America's self-conceptions of personal liberty and civic equality. In the end, complexities inherent in the concept of the covenant, especially its creative failure to control the radical nature of "grace," are determinative factors in our contradictory American egalitarian ideals.
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Rankin, Mark. "Imagining Henry VIII cultural memory and the Tudor king, 1535-1625 /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1179496104.

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Rademaker, Kenneth. "Candida: Shaw’s Presentation of the Roman Catholic “Other”." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1201659739.

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Books on the topic "Protestantism and literature"

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Alves, Rubem A. Protestantism and repression: A Brazilian case study. London: SCM, 1985.

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Sullivan, Lawrence Eugene. The features of Protestantism. Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea House Publishers, 2001.

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Weninger, F. X. Catholicity, protestantism and infidelity: An appeal to candid Americans. 2nd ed. New York: P. O'Shea, 1985.

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Röder, Grete. Protestantischer Realismus bei Theodor Fontane. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2017.

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Sloan, Barry. Writers and Protestantism in the north of Ireland: Heirs to adamnation? Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2000.

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Weninger, F. X. Catholicisme, protestantisme et infidélité: Appel aux Américains de bonne foi. New York: D. & J. Sadlier, 1985.

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Scheffmacher, J. J. Manuel de controverse. 4th ed. Montréal: Z. Chapeleau & Labelle, 1985.

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Kucharz, Thomas. Theologen und ihre Dichter: Literatur, Kultur und Kunst bei Karl Barth, Rudolf Bultmann und Paul Tillich. Mainz: Matthias-Grünewald, 1995.

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1949-, Rohls Jan, and Wenz Gunther 1949-, eds. Protestantismus und deutsche Literatur. Göttingen: V & R Unipress, 2004.

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Wheatley, Christopher J. Beneath Iërne's banners: Irish protestant drama of the Restoration and eighteenth century. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000.

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Book chapters on the topic "Protestantism and literature"

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Wennerscheid, Sophie. "Sin and Seduction. Antichrist in Danish Literature, Opera, and Film." In Aesthetics of Protestantism in Northern Europe, 199–213. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.apne-eb.5.131422.

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Mohnike, Thomas. "Pietist Nostalgia. Aesthetization of Faith and the Nordic Revival Movements in Scandinavian Post-World War II Literature." In Aesthetics of Protestantism in Northern Europe, 215–31. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.apne-eb.5.131423.

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Chovanec, Kevin. "Introduction: “But One Body”—Early Modern Transnational Protestantism and English Literature." In Pan-Protestant Heroism in Early Modern Europe, 1–46. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40705-6_1.

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Machann, Clinton. "St Paul and Protestantism (1870), Literature and Dogma (1873), God and the Bible (1875), Last Essays on Church and Religion (1877)." In Matthew Arnold, 100–125. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230371583_6.

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Faivre, Anne-Marie Mercier. "Protestantismus und Aufklärung." In Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, 209–17. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xiv.15fai.

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Vogler, Bernard. "Évolution du protestantisme: organisation et orthodoxie." In Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, 27. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xiii.05vog.

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van de Kamp, Jan. "Filling up the gap? The use of Lutheran devotional literature by German Reformed Protestants in Early Modern times." In Luther and Calvinism, 207–20. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.13109/9783666552625.207.

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Keller, Andreas. "Mammon und Passion ‚ins Deutsche versetzet‘: Transfer der Sprache und Erhebung der Seele am Beispiel der Parallelübersetzungen Joseph Halls im deutschen Protestantismus." In Neues von der Insel, 41–65. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66949-5_3.

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ZusammenfassungDuring the 16th century the english language is not very common in the german areas. In the course of the continued Reformation movements, however, demand is increasing for personally oriented devotional literature, which British authors appear to be better able to meet. In this way, multiple versions of individual texts are created in parallel in German, which, in addition to meditation and devotion, also introduce very specific phenomena of a social reality that are relatively unknown in German-speaking areas. As Joseph Hall shows, questions such as financial speculation, capital increase or commercial law, psychology or character development are particularly attractive for readers in German-speaking countries who are completely focused on heart and inwardness. More precise comparisons of individual translations show the different techniques of the translators, but also the different interests of their regional readership.
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Häberlein, Mark, and Paula Manstetten. "The Translation Policies of Protestant Reformers in the Early Eighteenth Century. Projects, Aims, and Communication Networks." In Übersetzungspolitiken in der Frühen Neuzeit / Translation Policy and the Politics of Translation in the Early Modern Period, 301–34. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-67339-3_13.

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ZusammenfassungThis article examines the aims and motivations underlying the numerous translation projects initiated or supported by two Protestant organizations—the Anglican Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) in London and the Pietist Halle orphanage—in the early eighteenth century. These projects included translations of the Bible, catechisms, and devotional literature into over twenty-five languages, carried out for the benefit of Protestants abroad as well as for missionary activities among non-Protestant Christians and “heathens”. We survey a broad range of these endeavours and offer a case study of one specific project, the printing of an Arabic Psalter and New Testament for the use of Eastern Christians in London from 1720 onwards. We show that these translation projects were aimed at spreading Protestant piety, particularly in vernacular languages, and at creating a counterweight to the missionary activities of the Roman Catholic Church. However, the two societies did not follow a preconceived strategy; rather, these initiatives were the brainchildren of individual members and often relied on the availability of skilled translators in London and Halle. While many of the projects had limited success, they served as a means of religious self-affirmation for their initiators, who believed they were contributing to building God’s kingdom on earth by spreading the Christian message.
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"4. Chinese Protestant Literature and Early Korean Protestantism." In Christianity in Korea, 72–94. University of Hawaii Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780824861896-006.

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