Jesus

It is titled from a phrase in the book of Isaiah which is read by Christians as a prophecy of the persecutions awaiting the Messiah, or Jesus Christ. Its dedication, To You Who Made Me...

The book opens with several stages of preliminary matter. In an opening epistle to five individual Friends, EB says she has not acted out of ambition to be printed or to be popular, but in...

Thomas Scott published AB 's sceptical pamphlet, On the Deity of Jesus of Nazareth, which contributed to the ending of her marriage.

This pamphlet's original working title was What think ye of Christ? In the version published by Scott, AB remained anonymous, naming herself only the wife of a beneficed clergyman. A sequel was...

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. She sees...

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...

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...

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...

Having opened with a graceful rhetorical gesture towards womanly modesty and courtesy, EC proceeds to cast scorn on her antagonist's capacity and annihilate his arguments. The tone, as befits a polemic, is a good deal...

Caroline Meysey-Wigley (later CC ), as Paul Ferrol, published Essays on the Human Intellect, as constructed by God, and on Our Saviour , considered in His Character of Man.

Cope makes free with the category Tumps (typically useless male poets), yet her poems to or about men are typically loving in tone: for her father, her husband, George Herbert (who is Dear George although...

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

These fifth and sixth books, A Brief View of Greek Philosophy up to the Age of Pericles, and A Brief View of Greek Philosophy from the Age of Socrates to the Coming of Christ

It takes on anti-semitic prejudice, making the point that Jesus Christ was a Jewish boy, even while Dinah Mulock also asserts that the days of religious persecution are over. She argues by way of...

In a preface to a later edition of Anna Lombard, VC wrote: I endeavoured to draw in Gerald Ethridge a character whose actions should be in accordance with the principles laid down by Christ