De-la-Noy, Michael. “Obituary. Monica Furlong”. The Guardian.
Christianity
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Cultural formation | Monica Furlong | At about the same time, too, she gradually adopted a personal commitment to Christianity
, with the help of her Anglican
parish priest, Joost de Blank
. |
Cultural formation | Monica Furlong | The Church ofEngland
was still resolved against ordaining women when in 1986 a vote was passed forbidding invitations to visiting, foreign women priests to celebrate Holy Communion. MF
and her associates responded by founding the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Monica Furlong | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Monica Furlong | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Monica Furlong | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Gilding | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ann Hawkshaw | The third section of the poem returns to the themes of immortality, impermanence, and the saving grace of Christianity
. Dionysius, visiting Myra's grave thirty years after her death, laments her loss but praises God... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Naomi Jacob | NJ
's father, Samuel Jacob
, had started life in Germany, the country to which his father had fled as a boy from Poland, after his parents were killed in pogroms. Longer ago... |
Cultural formation | Anna Kingsford | All that came to her, she believed, came by illumination because of a past birth, and because she pushed [herself] on to a point of spiritual evolution somewhat in advance of the rest of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Kingsford | AK
's intention in The Perfect Way was to reveal the Ancient Doctrine of the Constitution of Existence and the Nature of Religion and to supply a system of thought and rule of life adapted... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Kingsford | The book offers fragments of the Sacred Books of Hermes
, which arose from the latest productions of Greek philosophy yet contain some traces of the religious doctrine of ancient Eygpt. Trismegistus, Hermes. The Virgin of the World. Translators Kingsford, Anna and Edward Maitland, Wizards Book Shelf. ii |
Textual Production | Anna Kingsford | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Julia Kristeva | Le féminin et le sacré investigates the place of women in the domain of the sacred, and in various world religions. L'Incroyable besoin de croire argues that Christianity
paved the way for humanism. |
Cultural formation | Denise Levertov | Her parents belonged to the educated, professional middle class, and were practising Christians within the Church of England
, where (even to a teenager beginning to experience doubts) the services were beautiful with candlelight and... |
Characters | Edna Lyall | As readers recognized at once, Luke Raeburn, the embattled atheist in this book, noticeably resembles the politician Charles Bradlaugh
, who was excluded from taking his seat in the House of Commons
after repeatedly being... |
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