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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"spiritual autobiography"”.
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Reconsidering early modern English spiritual autobiography. Quaker women's self-writings in 17th-century England
… for a reconsideration of early modern Quaker spiritual autobiography as a collective and collaborative genre where the importance of an individual’s life is brought to light by emphasising its interdependence with others.
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Creating a New Genre: Mary Rowlandson and Hher Narrative of Indian Captivity.
… at the time of her writing. These are the spiritual autobiography, a documentary method meant to archive spiritual and emotional growth through a record of daily activities; the conversion narrative, which made public one's theological assurance of God's grace; and the jeremiad, a sermon …
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Gendering the Pulpit: Religious Discourse and the African -American Female Experience
… ordination, then through written discourse (spiritual autobiography) that permitted them to engage in dialogue about the debate over gender and religion. It is my contention that these women's interpretive strategies and pulpit rhetoric contributed to a discourse that promoted freedom---for …
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THE EMBRACE IS ALL: GALWAY KINNELL'S POETRY, 1950 - 1985
… primary goal underlying all of Kinnell's poetry: spiritual growth. Kinnell's poetry, rooted in a shared human reality, is the spiritual autobiography of a man both individual and representative, who suffers from a spiritual and emotional ailment common in secular, technological societies and who …
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Communion with God and Comfortable Dependence on Him: Anne Dutton's Trinitarian Spirituality
… seeks to retrieve a crucial aspect of the spiritual heritage of Anne Dutton, her Trinitarian spirituality as it was developed in the historical context of eighteenth-century Trinitarian controversies in England and especially the Particular Baptists’ defense of the Trinity. It argues that …
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The tourist
… of Joyce. It is a well-known process in spiritual autobiography to work these exaggerations out of one's self into some aesthetic container for everyone to see. But I do not claim such total separation. I do not pretend to Joyce's excellence, or to be standing up there “paring my nails,” …
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Toward the still point : T. S. Eliot's Four quartets and Thoreau's Walden
… Eliot in Four Quartets adds another layer of his spiritual goals beyond those expressed in Walden, he expresses his religio-philosophical quest for Incarnational "still point[s] of the turning world" (Burnt Norton 62) using autobiographical aspects and poetic tropes that are in many ways …