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During the Reformation, the mystery of the Eucharist was the
subject of contentious debate and a nexus of concerns over how the
material might embody the sublime and how the absent might be made
present. For Kimberly Johnson, the question of how exactly Christ
can be present in bread and wine is fundamentally an issue of
representation, and one that bears directly upon the mechanics of
poetry. In Made Flesh, she explores the sacramental conjunction of
text with materiality and word with flesh through the peculiar
poetic strategies of the seventeenth-century English lyric. Made
Flesh examines the ways in which the works of John Donne, George
Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Edward Taylor, and other devotional poets
explicitly engaged in issues of signification, sacrament, worship,
and the ontological value of the material world. Johnson reads the
turn toward interpretively obstructive and difficult forms in the
seventeenth-century English lyric as a strategy to accomplish what
the Eucharist itself cannot: the transubstantiation of absence into
perceptual presence by emphasizing the material artifact of the
poem. At its core, Johnson demonstrates, the Reformation debate
about the Eucharist was an issue of semiotics, a reimagining of the
relationship between language and materiality. The self-asserting
flourishes of technique that developed in response to
sixteenth-century sacramental controversy have far-reaching
effects, persisting from the post-Reformation period into literary
postmodernity.
One of the greatest poems of the classical world, Virgil's Georgics
is a glorious celebration of the eternal beauty of the natural
world, now brought vividly to life in a powerful new translation.
'Georgic' means 'to work the earth', and this poetic guide to
country living combines practical wisdom on tending the land with
exuberant fantasy and eulogies to the rhythms of nature. It
describes hills strewn with wild berries in 'vine-spread autumn';
recommends watching the stars to determine the right time to plant
seeds; and gives guidance on making wine and keeping bees. Yet the
Georgics also tells of angry gods, bloody battles and a natural
world fraught with danger from storms, pests and plagues. Expansive
in its scope, lush in its language, this extraordinary work is at
once a reflection on the cycles of life, death and rebirth, an
argument for the nobility of labour and an impassioned reflection
on the Roman Empire of Virgil's times. Kimberly Johnson's lyrical
verse translation captures all the rich beauty and abundant imagery
of the original, re-creating this ancient masterpiece for our
times.
Womanist thought remains of critical importance given contemporary
issues of social justice and advocacy. Womanist Ethical Rhetoric
centers discourses of religious rhetoric and its influence on Black
women's aims for voice, empowerment, and social justice in these
turbulent times. The chapters utilize womanism, in conjunction with
other frames, to examine how Black women incorporate different
aspects of their identities into struggles for empowerment and
celebrations of who they are in holistic ways that center love and
community. This approach embraces both the commonalities and
differences between womanists through theoretical and applied
contexts. It advances the work of womanist predecessors and pays
homage to them, most notably Rev. Dr. Katie Cannon's work on
womanism and religion. Topics analyzed include Black women's
spiritual and professional identities in religious organizations,
the role of Black churches in Black Lives Matter, and the inclusion
of all Black women in racial academic achievement gaps. Chapters
also examine Black women's leadership and activism, including
church leaders and representations in popular culture, and women's
inclusion in the beloved community. This collection centralizes the
plurality of Black women's lives, which is key to advancing their
voices.
Womanist thought remains of critical importance given contemporary
issues of social justice and advocacy. Womanist Ethical Rhetoric
centers discourses of religious rhetoric and its influence on Black
women's aims for voice, empowerment, and social justice in these
turbulent times. The chapters utilize womanism, in conjunction with
other frames, to examine how Black women incorporate different
aspects of their identities into struggles for empowerment and
celebrations of who they are in holistic ways that center love and
community. This approach embraces both the commonalities and
differences between womanists through theoretical and applied
contexts. It advances the work of womanist predecessors and pays
homage to them, most notably Rev. Dr. Katie Cannon's work on
womanism and religion. Topics analyzed include Black women's
spiritual and professional identities in religious organizations,
the role of Black churches in Black Lives Matter, and the inclusion
of all Black women in racial academic achievement gaps. Chapters
also examine Black women's leadership and activism, including
church leaders and representations in popular culture, and women's
inclusion in the beloved community. This collection centralizes the
plurality of Black women's lives, which is key to advancing their
voices.
Imagine what would happen if our children were empowered from the
earliest o ages to understand their emotions. What if they were
taught positive words to use daily along with strategies to help
them manage their emotions? What if all of these lessons could
start as early as 2 years of age? The Adventures of BuLu is
designed to give children life skills at the most impressionable
time in their lives, early childhood. I believe by putting all the
great thoughts in their minds as early as we can, we can empower
them to be strong, thoughtful individuals who can understand that
their happiness lies within them...nowhere else. Give your children
the gifts of self love, confidence and happiness; an extraordinary
foundation that will last them a life time
This book brings together ten essays on John Donne and George
Herbert composed by an international group of scholars. The volume
represents the first collection of its kind to draw close
connections between these two distinguished early modern thinkers
and poets who are justly coupled because of their personal and
artistic association. The contributors' distinctive new approaches
and insights illuminate a variety of topics and fields while
suggesting new directions that future study of Donne and Herbert
might take. Some chapters explore concrete instances of
collaboration or communication between Donne and Herbert, and
others find fresh ways to contextualize the Donnean and Herbertian
lyric, carefully setting the poetry alongside discourses of
apophatic theology or early modern political theory, while still
others link Herbert's verse to Donne's devotional prose. Several
chapters establish specific theological and aesthetic grounds for
comparison, considering Donne and Herbert's respective positions on
religious assurance, comic sensibility, and virtuosity with poetic
endings.Â
This book brings together ten essays on John Donne and George
Herbert composed by an international group of scholars. The volume
represents the first collection of its kind to draw close
connections between these two distinguished early modern thinkers
and poets who are justly coupled because of their personal and
artistic association. The contributors' distinctive new approaches
and insights illuminate a variety of topics and fields while
suggesting new directions that future study of Donne and Herbert
might take. Some chapters explore concrete instances of
collaboration or communication between Donne and Herbert, and
others find fresh ways to contextualize the Donnean and Herbertian
lyric, carefully setting the poetry alongside discourses of
apophatic theology or early modern political theory, while still
others link Herbert's verse to Donne's devotional prose. Several
chapters establish specific theological and aesthetic grounds for
comparison, considering Donne and Herbert's respective positions on
religious assurance, comic sensibility, and virtuosity with poetic
endings.Â
Sequel to Good QuestionQ&A: Book Two Two men from different
worlds must realize they deserve to be loved and what they have
together is real and worth fighting for. Though Jamison Coburn and
Lonnie Bellerose have been a couple for a month, each worries he's
not good enough for the other. Lonnie has always doubted his worth
and right to be loved, despite a superb education and international
upbringing. Jamison, an undereducated laborer, grew up in a loving
family who never knew he was gay. As Jamison struggles to find his
way as an out gay man, he fears the occasional stumble will send
Lonnie packing. Lonnie doesn't trust that anyone would choose him
and worries that Jamison will see better options. When Lonnie's
abusive ex returns, he's determined to reclaim Lonnie. He works to
exacerbate the new couple's differences and doubts in the hopes of
splitting them up, which is proving too easy. For their love to
last, Lonnie and Jamison will have to be brutally honest, not only
with themselves, but with each other.
"Sequel to One Constant "
Throughout his life, successful artist Barnaby Rosenthal has
been rescued repeatedly by his one constant, Charleston Meeks. But
it s been seven tumultuous years since he s last seen the temporal
agent outside of his dreams and paintings.
Recently retired from his father s Restore Point Program,
Charleston s ready to approach Barnaby in their present year of
2020 and discover if the two of them can build a future on their
harried past.
Standing between them is a conservative senator determined to
erase the people saved by the RPP, and much of her rage is focused
on Barnaby. For the senator, time travel goes against God s plan,
so with the help of her hired guns, she intends to correct the
program s meddling by any means necessary.
For the first time, Charleston may not be there to save
Barnaby.
When he finds himself captivated by a movie-star handsome
stranger he meets in a bar, lawyer Ford Reilly watches a simple
one-night stand develop into a taste of what living honestly might
bring him.
Out and proud Gus Hansen has built a small architectural firm
from nothing, but could lose it all as he tries to break a contract
he signed before knowing about the project's antigay ties.
After Ford discovers he spent a passionate night with the man on
the other side of the dispute he's handling, he finds himself in
more than one quandary. He can either maintain the status quo,
enforcing the contract to the letter, or he can defy his
overbearing father and break free of the closeted life he's built
for himself in order to be with Gus.
Gus has his own choices to make. He knows the sting of loving a
man who hides himself, but the longer he lingers in Ford's
presence, the more difficult it becomes to deny their
attraction.
Sequel to Broken Eli Burke and Alec Sumner are finding out that
falling in love isn't the happily-ever-after they expected. Their
efforts to move forward as a couple and put their broken pasts
behind them are made all the more difficult by new fears and old
secrets. There are other stressors too: disagreeing over where to
live, dealing with other men intruding into their relationship, and
deciding if they must abandon the families of their pasts to build
one for the future. It may hurt, but being honest about what they
fear, what they've done, and what they want may be the only way to
forge a happy home.
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