Christianity

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Textual Features Mary Julia Young
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,...
Textual Production Evelyn Waugh
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...
Cultural formation Alice Walker
Raised as a Christian in the African Methodist Episcopal Church , AW had an inclination towards the natural, the mystic, and the metaphysical. During the decline of her marriage she became a regular tarot card...
Cultural formation Catharine Trotter
While a young woman CT converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism , the religion of her mother's family. In 1704 she maintained that differences among different branches of the Christian religion were of no importance...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Catharine Trotter
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...
Literary Setting Rosemary Sutcliff
This book returns to the community of former Norsemen who are now living in the Lake District, and whom Sutcliff depicted in The Shield Ring. During the early tenth century (re-created with her...
Textual Features Mary Robinson
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...
Textual Features Lady Hester Pulter
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Charlotte Nooth
Nooth's version begins with an introductory chapter on prejudice, which she defines as an opinion adopted upon hearsay, usually as a result of [i]ndolence, ignorance, a passive deference to authority, interest and pride.
Gregoire, Henri. Essay on the Nobility of the Skin. Translator Nooth, Charlotte, Setier.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text 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 Features Hannah More
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...
Textual Features Catherine Marsh
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...
Textual Features Sarah Macnaughtan
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...
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...
Textual Production Edna Lyall
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.
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7 March 203: In the reign of the Emperor Septimius Severus,...

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7 March 203

In the reign of the Emperor Septimius Severus , Perpetua , author of the earliest surviving text in Latin by a woman, was martyred at Carthage in North Africa.

6 June 1391: A hostile mob of armed Christians mounted...

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6 June 1391

A hostile mob of armed Christians mounted an attack on the Jewish quarter of Seville in Spain.

1733: A law passed by Jamaica's assembly decreed...

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1733

A law passed by Jamaica's assembly decreed that no one shall be deemed a mulatto after the third generation . . . but . . . shall have all the privileges and immunities of...

1736: Joseph Butler published Analogy of Religion,...

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1736

Joseph Butler published Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature, a defence of Christianity against Deism which argued from a principle of reasonable probability.

Perhaps late 1803: Mrs Marriott (almost certainly Martha Marriott,...

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Perhaps late 1803

Mrs Marriott (almost certainly Martha Marriott , 1737-1812, of Mendlesham in Suffolk) published Elements of Religion, Containing a Simple Deduction of Christianity , from its Source to its Present Circumstances.

By late October 1942: C. S. Lewis published the book version of...

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By late October 1942

C. S. Lewis published the book version of The Screwtape Letters, an epistolary fiction in which a senior devil, Screwtape, offers advice to his nephew, a junior devil, on tempting and ultimately damning a...

1 April 1947: Mahatma Gandhi suggested, remarkably for...

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1 April 1947

Mahatma Gandhi suggested, remarkably for a devout Hindu , that the first Prime Minister of an independent (and united) India should be the MuslimMuhammad Ali Jinnah (who after Partition became first premier of Pakistan).

1968: Mary Daly, an academic at the Jesuit-run...

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1968

Mary Daly , an academic at the Jesuit-run Boston College , published the first of her works in feministtheology, The Church and the Second Sex, an analysis of Roman Catholic and, more broadly, Christian thinking about women.

14-15 November 2014: At a girls' boarding school at Chibok in...

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14-15 November 2014

At a girls' boarding school at Chibok in north-east Nigeria, 276 students who were there during the holidays to take a physics exam were abducted by the terrorist group calling itself Boko Haram ...

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