Jesus

Standard Name: Jesus
Used Form: Jesus Christ
Used Form: Christ

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Textual Features Annie Besant
From a theosophical perspective, AB posits that nations exist not for themselves but as part of a movement towards that great Ideal of Nations as one Family, the Ideal of Universal Peace.
Besant, Annie. Britain’s Place in the Great Plan. Theosophical Publishing House, 1921.
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She sees...
Textual Features Maureen Duffy
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...
Textual Features Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
St Agatha's is a rich urban parish lacking a minister; the supply or temporary preacher assigned to them, an old man in a poor rural parish, goes out in a blizzard to visit a sick...
Textual Features L. S. Bevington
Some poems here are again strongly anti-religious. LSB excoriates religious institutions in In and Out of Church, mocking: Heaven to let—to paying lodger;
Ah, you canting devil-dodger,
Damn not us who spurn your...
Textual Features Edna St Vincent Millay
As usual, Millay writes often here of death. In the title poem death, which claims the buck for the sake of his antlers, is set against Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the...
Textual Features Lady Charlotte Elliot
The title piece, in Spenserian stanzas with an ababccdcc rhyme scheme, depicts Mary Magdalene being cajoled by Salome to seize the day. Mary, the poem's major speaker,                 weep[s] and moan[s]
  For wantonness of feasts and...
Textual Features Ada Cambridge
The first section of Echoes, which comprises nearly ninety percent of the book, includes several poems that describe personal and historical events of importance to the author with fervently religious language. Five of these...
Textual Features John Stuart Mill
The creed or philosophy of Utilitarianism held that human actions ought to be directed towards (in the well-known phrase of Jeremy Bentham ) the greatest happiness of the greatest number. Mill argued that utility is...
Textual Features Elizabeth Gilding
The poems in pastoral form include religious meditations, hymns for Christmas, Easter, and other Christian festivals, love complaints, and addresses to abstracts such as Pride and Sincerity. Despair is a dramatic mini-narrative, beginning Moments on...
Textual Features Leonora Carrington
The narrative is told in the first person to you, LC 's interlocutor Jeanne Megnen , and divided into five journal or diary entries dated 23-27 August 1943. Across those entries LC recounts her...
Textual Features Edith Mary Moore
Dismas, a near-contemporary of Jesus Christ , is a ruthless, conscienceless robber; but a touching prologue presents him as an abused child, hungering for love and beaten by his ruthless, conscienceless robber father if he...
Textual Features Elizabeth Gaskell
This is the contentious core of the novel: that the seducer's sin of seduction is far graver than that of an innocent girl who lets herself be seduced. Ruth's faults are called venial errors...
Textual Features Gillian Slovo
In 1924, the year that the Nationalists come to power through alliance with the Labour Party , Nathaniel is killed in a mine explosion and Evelyn comes to work as housekeeper for Harold and Julia...
Textual Features Henrietta Müller
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...
Textual Production Caroline Frances Cornwallis
CFC 's Small Books on Great Subjects this year included two titles on Greek philosophy: the first running to the time of Pericles , the second from the time of Socrates to that of Christ

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