Christianity

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...

In these two theological polemcs CT defends the right of the individual to interpret scripture for himself (or by implication herself), and the Christian orthodoxy of Locke , whom Holdsworth had accused of being a...

The title-page quotes James Beattie and Shakespeare . For dedication, five stanzas from Longfellow addressed to absent friends invoke again members of the Eighth Hussars . FID 's preface declares her intention of reporting the...

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. These doctrines...

In her final will and testament, AK bequeathed all her unpublished and incomplete manuscripts to Edward Maitland , who released them to the public in the years following her death.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

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.

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...

The story follows a young Scotsman, intriguingly named Selah Harrison, who struggles to cope with the contrast between God's love and the misery of the poor in the world. He asks himself: Why did children...

The short memorial, which is only about ninety pages or so, details the death of a doctor, G. Reeve , who was dying of consumption and almost took his own life with poison to end...

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...