Christianity

HM stresses the equality of black people with white, not just in soul but in thought or mind and in feeling. She draws a parallel between pagan African religions and that of ancient Rome...

LHP 's source appears to be the romance titled The Life and Death of Muhammad, 1637, which until recently was ascribed to Sir Walter Raleigh . The Unfortunate Florinda traces the motive for the...

Her postscript to the volume invokes Wordsworth as model (as, indeed, her title invokes the joint work of Wordsworth and Coleridge ). Her titles (like The Shepherd's Dog and The Poor, Singing Dame) copy...

This story delivers a terrific kick. It centres on an unnamed woman who grew up in an oppressively Christian household, kept miserable by the suffering of Christ , whom she calls the Hanged Man. She...

Ill-fortune overtakes Elinor: someone else's need induces her to pawn her jewels and other possessions, thus bringing her into contact with Moses, a Jewish moneylender. Moses (who speaks with an accent: d for th,...

The play comprises its characters' conversation about and preparation for their feast, during which Montezuma leads a jovial yet sharp attack on rituals and narratives of Christianity . It concludes with the arrival of the...

In 1901 she contributed another introduction, this time to Joseph Joshua Green 's War: Is it or is it not consistent with Christianity ?, whose first edition, too, dated from this year.

In her final will and testament, AK bequeathed all her unpublished and incomplete manuscripts to Edward Maitland , who released them to the public in the years following her death. These included: a book of...

EW published an entirely new departure for him, a historical novel, Helena, about the mother of the Emperor Constantine , who converted her son to Christianity and is said to have discovered the cross...

In Bird of Paradise: Glimpses of Living MythMF , as her title implies, looks at traditional ways of presenting Christian faith, and at their compatibility with the contemporary world.

MF herself supplies an introduction explaining the book's intention to address the narrower question of women's ordination and the broader question of the full evaluation of women within the Christian community. She deals briefly...

This book reflects MF 's wide reading and an impish sense of humour employed to help her and her readers live with the unacceptable. Each chapter comes headed by a very funny cartoon and a...

The Yoga of Christ, or the Science of the Soul claims to illuminate, at least in part, the Truth, divine and living of Jesus 's words. These, it says, had for centuries lain hidden beneath...

From her concluding chapter, it is clear that MFB was deeply invested in the teachings of Christianity and attributed the sacrifices of serving women to its widespread principles. She writes: The noble army of serving...

MF begins her introduction with Saint Thérèse as exemplar of that style of traditional female sanctity which involves drastic self-abnegation, with Sackville-West 's attribution to her of niaiserie or sugariness, and with her own consequent...