Jesus

This retelling of the Biblical story of Christ 's crucifixion, draws a parallel between the political situation in Ireland and that in Jerusalem at the time of Christ.

Quoting several of the street ballads at length, AG argues that they are a means of recovering the suppressed history of Ireland, which having been forbidden in the national schools, has lifted up its...

On 19 August 1834 she wrote to Douglas Cohen expressing the hope that I may soon rest in the kingdom of God through the merits of our crucified Saviour Jesus Christ and I beseech you...

LLH approaches her subject with reverence and urgency. The Holy Mass is the most sublime action that the Church militant can offer to God. It holds out to believers the daily opportunity to enrich ourselves...

A number of poems in this volume express sympathy with the losses and failures of humanity, or address the passage of time. Several concern religious observance: among these are two poems both bearing the title...

This first novel offers insights into AK 's early beliefs about relationships between men and women. In her eyes, God has allotted [women] greater trials and keener sufferings than men. The idea of woman as...

ELL 's novel The True History of Joshua Davidson, later given the subtitle Christian and Communist, aroused fierce debate over its relation of the life of Jesus to contemporary conditions.

The collection opens with A Call to Come to Christ, which engages in sacred parody of Christopher Marlowe 's well-known Come Live With Me and Be My Love. Melvill imagines not a lover...

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...

The title of A Few Figs from Thistles is a mischievous reversal of Christ 's rhetorical question: Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

First Fig (beginning My candle burns at both ends) had already been out for two years and had become Millay's signature text. Second Fig, like the volume's title, subverts a parable of Christ

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...

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...

A book of comparative theology, The Yoga of Christ , or the Science of the Soul, was published with Henrietta Müller credited as the editor. The author, A. K. G., may have been...

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...