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Inspiration and Utmost Art The Poetics of Early Modern English Psalm Translations (5)


Free Download Janina Niefer, "Inspiration and Utmost Art: The Poetics of Early Modern English Psalm Translations (5) "
English | ISBN: 3643908180 | 2018 | 472 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This study is concerned with Early Modern English psalm translations. It focusses on the connection between inspiration and formal perfection as it appears in George Wither’s "A Preparation to the Psalter", Philip Sidney’s "The Defence of Poesy", "The Sidney Psalter" and "The Bay Psalm Book". Taking into account theological, philosophical, and literary contexts of the time, it reveals the struggle to find a suitable language in praise of God as a main concern of Early Modern religious writers, and presents concepts which are highly relevant for the religious poetry of the time. Dissertation. (Series: Religion and Literature / Religion und Literatur, Vol. 5) [Subject: Religious Studies]

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My Utmost A Devotional Memoir


Free Download Macy Halford, "My Utmost: A Devotional Memoir"
English | 2018 | pages: 368 | ISBN: 0307947971 | EPUB | 6,3 mb
Raised as an Evangelical, Macy Halford eventually left Dallas for college and a career in New York City, where she found her life and beliefs evolving in a more secular direction. Yet every day she continued to read My Utmost for His Highest, a classic Christian text beloved by millions of Evangelicals. Eager to understand the book’s unique ability to bridge her two worlds, she quit her job at The New Yorker and began to look more deeply into the background of the devotional and its author, Scottish preacher Oswald Chambers. As Halford wrestles with what Chambers believed and why his book is so important to her, she gives us a captivating and candid meditation on what it means to be a Christian, a reader, and a seeker in the twenty-first century.

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