After Writing provides a significant contribution to the growing genre of works which offer a challenge to the modern and postmodern accounts of Christianity. The author shows how Platonic philosophy did not assume a primacy of metaphysical presence, as had been previously thoug…
"After Writing provides a significant contribution to the growing genre of works which offers a challenge to modern and postmodern accounts of Christianity." --BarnesandNoble.com.
"After Writing provides a significant contribution to the growing genre of works which offers a challenge to modern and postmodern accounts of Christianity." --BarnesandNoble.com.
Eucharist and the poetic imagination in early modern England
by Read, Sophie
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The Reformation changed forever how the sacrament of the Eucharist was understood. This study of six canonical early modern lyric poets traces the literary afterlife of what was one of the greatest doctrinal shifts in English history. Sophie Read argues that the move from a lite…
An outstanding contemporary analysis of the transubstantion and of its meaning and significance today . The first part of the book concentrates on the concerns and approach of the Fathers who defined the doctrine at The Council of Trent, the second part goes on to develop a mder…
