Author: Peter Cooper File Type: pdf Excerpt from The Anglican Church The Creature and Slave of the State, Being a Refutation of Certain Puseyite of the Established Church The Oxford Divines have opened another chapter in the history of the eternal variations of their Church. In their hands, the ever-shifting drama of Protestantism is about to present a new scene. Of this fresh change come oer the spirit of their dream, the first intimation was given in the publication of the Tracts for the Times, - a temporizing title, that well accorded with the policy that dictated, and the shifts that were to characterize, this new attempt to bolster up the falling fortunes of a not old, and yet already superannuated, system of religion. The Church was now truly in danger not, however, from Popery, though Popery would be sure to gain by the result, - but from her old foe, whom she engendered in her own bosom, Dissenterism. She had given the example of flinging off the yoke of authority in religion and was it to be endured that she should set up in its stead the idol of her own puny and self-constituted authority? No. It was not in the nature of things that the men who had refused obedience to the decrees of a Church that measures its existence by the lapse of ages and the extent of Christendom, should allow themselves to be held by the placets of an insular hierarchy, that began with yesterday, and that, holding on precariously by the forbearance of the State, may be consigned to its tomb on tomorrow. In vain, accordingly, were articles framed, the aid of the secular arm called in, and statutes of recusancy and conformity multiplied without number.

Author: R. Chris Hassel Jr. File Type: pdf Religious issues and discourse are key to an understanding of Shakespeares plays and poems. This dictionary discusses over 1000 words and names in Shakespeares works that have a religious connotation. Its unique word-by-word approach allows equal consideration of the full nuance of each of these words, from abbess to zeal. It also gradually reveals the persistence, the variety, and the sophistication of Shakespeares religious usage. Frequent attention is given to the prominence of Reformation controversy in these words, and to Shakespeares often ingenious and playful metaphoric usage of them. Theological commonplaces assume a major place in the dictionary, as do overt references to biblical figures, biblical stories and biblical place-names biblical allusions church figures and saints. **Review Chris Hassel is the right scholar to grasp the nettle of Shakespeares religious language, since Hassels authority where Shakespeare and religion are concerned is well established. This dictionary is a mine of helpful information, and everyone will learn something from it. Shakespeare Quarterly This is an authoritative volume that will be an important addition to collections in Elizabethan literature and music American Reference Books Annual The great strength of Hassels dictionary is that it is more than a dictionary, stepping past vocabulary into context... scrupulous in explaining what words need not mean...quicker and handier than an online concordance...and goes well beyond a dictionarys basic briefs the helpfully selective bibliography is particularly strong on recent criticism... it should retain long-term value as a reference work, both for those in search of proof texts and those fascinated by the sinuous operation of Shakespearean religious metaphor. Times Literary Supplement Given the saturation of Christian thought and symbol in Shakespeares cultural lexicon, selecting the words and their meanings was perhaps more difficult for Hassel (Vanderbilt Univ.) than for other authors. Cloister, for example, may have obvious Christian significance, but the theological shades of meaning in words such as beneath or memory are far more subtle. This lexicographer does a fine job of illuminating these nuances, both with contextual references and contemporary commentary from writers such as Henry Bullinger, John Donne, and Lancelot Andrewes. Hassel has an expansive grasp of his material, making reference to both Catholic and Protestant sources, but he wisely refrains from trying to tease out Shakespeares own beliefs. The extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources is useful for advanced students and scholars. The specificity of the subject matter makes this a suitable purchase for libraries with comprehensive Shakespeare collections or that support intensive study of the early modern period. Summing Up Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchersfaculty. - *CHOICE * Book Description A major reference resource for all students and scholars of Shakespeare now available in paperback from the Arden Shakespeare.

Author: R. L. Rutsky File Type: pdf From Publishers WeeklyFrom Baudelaires confrontation with the specter of art photography to the present age of mirror shades, Pentium-envy and ambient dance tracks, Rutsky provides a fairly comprehensive, though sometimes fluidly categorized, overview of the development of the modern aesthetic of technology. For Rutsky, technology, once clearly defined as other than what is human, has perhaps replaced religion and psychology as the main source of metaphors for how the mind (and soul) work. Citing a range of modern philosophers and thinkers from Heidegger, Benjamin and Duchamp to the inevitable William Gibson and the doyenne of cyber-aesthetics, Donna Haraway, the book covers a lot of ground--Shelleys Frankenstein, the constructivist films of Vertov, a reading of William Gibson via Frederic Jameson, a long section on Fritz Langs film Metropolis and a detour into a theory of Nazism and Hitler fascination as the fervid fetishizing of an androgynous leader. Rutsky falters a bit when it comes to contemporary art and cultural practices, where some fieldwork and reportage would have given his examples more punch. Like George Landows paean to cyberculture, Hypertext, the book is best on how thinking about technology helps resolve certain philosophical conundrums--organic vs. mechanic rational vs. irrational masculine vs. feminine--that have plagued the West, perhaps even providing the ground for a total unified field theory. Lucid and cogent in its presentation of highly complicated issues, this study will reward those interested in the fatal attraction of art and culture. (Dec.) 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Author: Midnight Notes File Type: pdf bMidnight Notes #6 (1983) - Posthumous Notesbb[bDespite the cover legend Vol.IV No.1 is actually number 6 see httpwww.midnightnotes.orgmnpublic.html]font face=Noto Sans, serifThis Midnight Querist began this issue with questions of the movements dead. The issue then analyzes the Peace Movement and its control by the re-industrialization sector of capital. It also presents a proletarian nuclear strategy that is increasingly relevant for us in the 1990s. We catch the post humorous laughter of hte insurrectionary dead from the eighteenth century, then address our real dead, from the voice of Rigoberta Menchu speaking from Guatemala, and our Italian comrades railroaded, tortured and killed. It concludes with an Audit of the balance of living class forces in the early 80s.fontfont face=Noto Sans, serifbTable of Contentsbfontfont face=Noto Sans, serifMidnight Querist (p.1)fontfont face=Noto Sans, serifFreezing the Movement (pp.2-12)fontfont face=Noto Sans, serifElegy for E.P. Thompson (pp.13-16)fontfont face=Noto Sans, serifA Letter to Bostons Radical Americans (pp.17-26)fontp Times mediumfont face=Noto Sans, serif Noto Sans, serif 11pxGuatemala, 1983 fontfont face=Noto Sans, serifspan 11px In the House of the Killer Bats (pp.27-30)spanfontfont face=Noto Sans, serifItaly, 1983 Or Di A Fra Dolcin (pp.31-36)fontfont face=Noto Sans, serifAudit of the Crisis (pp.37-39)font This Midnight Notes collection was made for a href=httpslibrary.memoryoftheworld.orghttpslibrary.memoryoftheworld.org aFurther information about the collection a href=httpswww.memoryoftheworld.orgblog20150527midnight-notes-digitizedhttpswww.memoryoftheworld.orgblog20150527midnight-notes-digitized a