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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Pantheism"”.
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Pantheism in 1805-6 and 1850 Versions of the Prelude
<p>When Wordsworth wrote The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet1s Mind, he probably did not suspect that the matter of his religious orthodoxy would be the subject of much discussion. But no sooner had the poem been published than the comments on his orthodoxy began. Wordsworth worked intermittently over …
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Theodore Roethke, Pantheist
… appears to be a definite pattern of implied pantheism in Roethke's early poems, a pattern more obviously developed in the middle poems, and even more fully expressed or implied in the later poems, including those published after his death. And so, in an attempt to prove that Roethke's poetry …
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A study in religious worldview and subjective well-being
… six worldviews (Monotheism, Polytheism, Eastern Pantheism, Modern Humanism, Empiricism, and Naturalism) based on the factorial analysis computed by Spearman, the developer of the Personal Philosophical Belief Statements Scale (2006). The data suggest that one's worldview may have a significant …
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A mystic quest in the sheltering country : an investigation into Paul Bowles's literary image of Morocco
… of the writer’s mystic quest in the context of Pantheism. I have therefore analysed Paul Bowles’s quest in the light of Ibn-al-Arabi’s Pantheism and of other mystical philosophies as appropriate. Thus, the final chapter of this investigation has been devoted to Paul Bowles’s mystic Morocco as …
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George MacDonald and Victorian Society
… and the development of MacDonald’s unique pantheism in his texts, such as the short story, ‘A Journey Rejourneyed’ (1865-6), Guild Court (1868), Wilfrid Cumbermede (1872), What’s Mine’s Mine (1886), and Home Again (1887).<br/><br/>Chapter Four uncovers MacDonald’s involvement with the …
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Emily Brontë : the mind of a visionary
… hell, mercy and justice, power and survival, and pantheism are considered in depth. It is argued that she is an unorthodox thinker who does not believe in an eternal hell and that she has drawn inspiration for this idea from Frederick Maurice and Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is also shown how issues of …
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Joyce Mansour's <i>Ça</i> and <i>Histoires nocives</i>: translations and critical interpretations
… creative, aesthetic etc.)</li><li>Nihilism and pantheism (phenomenology of nature)</li><li>Semantic sexuality</li><li>Incantatory style and oneiric vision.</li></ol></p><p>The second and fourth chapters will obviously constitute the fundamental core and essence of my investigation since it …
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The nature of Christian mysticism in the thought of Baron von Huegell and George Tyrrell
… a critique of Buddhism, neo-Platonism and pantheism, rested on a worldaffirming attitude to creation, a balance between divine transcendence and immanence and the articulation of a legitimate panentleism. It also involved a positive acceptance of the bodily-spiritual unity of human nature …
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The philosophy of Pierre Gassendi: science and belief in seventeenth-century Paris and Provence
… of sceptical materialism, a sort of Pythagorean pantheism, was a major source of his interest in atomism, astronomy and nature in general. The evidence for this is presented in the sections on the Church, Life and Souls, Friendship, Atoms and Indivisibles. Whilst these views were relevant to his …
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‘The balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities‘: political tensions and religious transitions in the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
… a more personal form of Dissent, grounded in Pantheism. Chapter One considers how Coleridge‘s sonnets, lectures and periodical (The Watchman) of 1794-5 articulated his developing radical political and Dissenting religious views. Fundamental to Coleridge‘s views was a notion of the …
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Political metaphysics : God, determinism, and constructivism in the thought of Thomas Hobbes and Gerrard Winstanley
… of Hobbes's deistic theology and Winstanley's pantheism. In so doing, it offers a revised approach to both thinkers that contests the dichotomous approach to determinism and constructivism that has been set out by much secondary Hobbes and Winstanley scholarship. Secondly, this thesis makes a …
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An examination of the sacramental vision of Dylan Thomas: its sources, analogues and its expression in his poetry
… He moved away from an uneasy, pessimistic pantheism in his youth to a firm joyousness in the conviction that all things are holy because they are part of a transcendent Being. His poetry is an attempt to establish the harmony and communion which he envisions between matter and spirit. In …
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Trauma and Restoration: A Theology of Trauma Engaging Herman Bavinck
… reflect the twin errors of materialism and pantheism respectively and thus stand opposite Bavinck’s organic worldview. Chapter 4 applies Bavinck’s anthropological insights to trauma by providing a theological framework for understanding trauma’s devastating effects on the whole human …
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Doubt and Faith in Tennyson's Poetry
… "Flower in the Crannied Wall," "The Higher Pantheism," "Locksley Hall," In Memoriam, "Supposed Confessions of a Second-rate Sensitive Mind," "The Two Voices," and "Vastness." In addition to these eleven poems, a few others have been examined for clues as to what kind of doubts plagued the …
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The Politics of Belief in Hume and Enlightenment Scepticism
… against the accusation of fanaticism in the Pantheism Controversy. Kant’s intervention urged Jacobi to further develop a critique of transcendental idealism in his David Hume on Faith, or Idealism and Realism. As I argue in this chapter, Jacobi adopted a Humean sceptical procedure to …