George Herbert: Sacred and ProfaneHelen Wilcox, Richard Todd VU University Press, 1995 - 211 pages |
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Page 69
... understanding of what it is to be religious . It is not Calvin has to say ' often to reread and diligently weigh what was true ' , but simply to fix one's attention on it , to be incapable of distraction — perhaps , since his definition ...
... understanding of what it is to be religious . It is not Calvin has to say ' often to reread and diligently weigh what was true ' , but simply to fix one's attention on it , to be incapable of distraction — perhaps , since his definition ...
Page 70
... understanding of it : we can be confident about something's being good and true even is we do not under- stand what it is . ' Or with a more desperate inflexion , but as irrelevantly to what we would think of as ' understanding ...
... understanding of it : we can be confident about something's being good and true even is we do not under- stand what it is . ' Or with a more desperate inflexion , but as irrelevantly to what we would think of as ' understanding ...
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... understanding not only of how dissimilar texts come together , a unity dependent on ' Truth being consonant to it self ' , but also of habitual dis- criminations and attention to context : ' For the Law required one thing , and the ...
... understanding not only of how dissimilar texts come together , a unity dependent on ' Truth being consonant to it self ' , but also of habitual dis- criminations and attention to context : ' For the Law required one thing , and the ...
Contents
Prolegomena | 3 |
Herbert and Kings | 33 |
Sacred Parody and George Herbert | 49 |
Copyright | |
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