Christianity

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.

This is partly a book about change and modernization. RF welcomed particularly the stamping out of tribal conflict and corruption in Iran, and the tolerance newly extended to Jews , Christians , and Zoroastrians

Pushing against the femme-enfant who frequently emerges at the centre of surrealist art and writing, this book's heroine, Marion Leatherby, is a ninety-two-year-old crone. She is described by her grandson as a drooling sack of...

MF herself supplies an introduction explaining the book's intention to address the narrower question of women's ordination and the broader question of the full evaluation of women within the Christian community. She deals briefly...

In her final will and testament, AK bequeathed all her unpublished and incomplete manuscripts to Edward Maitland , who released them to the public in the years following her death.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

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...

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...

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...