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PDF hosted at the Radboud Repository of the Radboud University Nijmegen The following full text is a publisher's version. For additional information about this publication click this link. http://hdl.handle.net/2066/145654 Please be advised that this information was generated on 2021-10-11 and may be subject to change. WAITING THE RELIGIOUS POETRY OF RONALD STUART THOMAS WELSH PRIEST AND POET • M.J.J, van Buuren •• WAITING THE RELIGIOUS POETRY OF RONALD STUART THOMAS WELSH PRIEST AND POET Een wetenschappelijke proeve op het gebied van de Letteren. Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Katholieke Universiteit van Nijmegen, volgens besluit van het College van Decanen in het openbaar te verdedigen op donderdag 2 december 1993 te 3.30 uur precies door Martmus Johannes Joseph van Buuren geboren op 8 juni 1927 te 's Gravenhage. Promotores: Prof. Dr W.J.M. Bronzwaer Prof. Dr C.J. Waaijman ISBN 90-9006638-1 3 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 5 ABBREVIATIONS 9 PART A. THE POET Chapter One: Ronald Stuart Thomas 13 Chapter Two: Welsh and Anglo-Welsh Poetry 27 Chapter Three: R.S.Thomas and the Christian Religious Tradition 38 PART B. THE POETRY Chapter Four: A Poetry of Religious Experience 55 Chapter Five: The Seeds of Godhead 77 Chapter Six: God's Disappointment with Man: Mythopoeic Poetry 100 Chapter Seven: Man's Disappointment with God 115 A Dazzling Darkness Chapter Eight: The Gates to The Presence 133 PARTC. POSTSCRIPT 159 BIBLIOGRAPHY 161 APPENDIX : R.S.THOMAS AT SEVENTY 172 CURRICULUM ГТАЕ 183 " Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; Death closes all: but something ere the end Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. -
Crises of Faith: an Overview of Critical Commentary Jonathan D
Crises of Faith: An Overview of Critical Commentary Jonathan D. Wright and Jeff Moody Surprisingly little seems to have been written about any crises of faith depicted in English and American literature before the mid-nineteenth century.1 After that point, however, discussions of the topic become much more numerous, especially in scholarship dealing with Victorian literature. Nonetheless, a few books dealing with earlier periods do discuss crises of faith and doubt. They also provide general overviews of such matters from early times to the present day. Of these books, John D. Barbour’s Versions of Deconversion: Autobiography and the Loss of Faith seems most valuable, especially because it deals with crises of faith in works from the late Roman period to the late twentieth century. Barbour discusses the writings of St. Augustine, John Bunyan, John Newman, William Wordsworth, Thomas carlyle, John Stuart mill, Frederick douglass, Leo Tolstoy, John ruskin, Edmund Gosse, Jean Paul Sartre, Mary McCarthy, and many others. Barbour focuses mainly on crises of Christian faith, but he also con- siders such matters as race, gender, and modern cults. He suggests that those who suffer a “deconversion,” or loss of faith, undergo an experi- ence that displays several common traits: A deconversion has four basic characteristics that different autobiogra- phers may emphasize to a greater or lesser extent. deconversion involves doubt or denial of the truth of a system of beliefs. Second, deconversion is characterized by moral criticism of not only particular actions or prac- tices but an entire way of life. Third, the loss of faith brings emotional upheaval, especially such painful feelings as grief, guilt, loneliness, and despair. -
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PDF hosted at the Radboud Repository of the Radboud University Nijmegen The following full text is a publisher's version. For additional information about this publication click this link. http://hdl.handle.net/2066/145654 Please be advised that this information was generated on 2017-12-05 and may be subject to change. WAITING THE RELIGIOUS POETRY OF RONALD STUART THOMAS WELSH PRIEST AND POET • M.J.J, van Buuren •• WAITING THE RELIGIOUS POETRY OF RONALD STUART THOMAS WELSH PRIEST AND POET Een wetenschappelijke proeve op het gebied van de Letteren. Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Katholieke Universiteit van Nijmegen, volgens besluit van het College van Decanen in het openbaar te verdedigen op donderdag 2 december 1993 te 3.30 uur precies door Martmus Johannes Joseph van Buuren geboren op 8 juni 1927 te 's Gravenhage. Promotores: Prof. Dr W.J.M. Bronzwaer Prof. Dr C.J. Waaijman ISBN 90-9006638-1 3 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 5 ABBREVIATIONS 9 PART A. THE POET Chapter One: Ronald Stuart Thomas 13 Chapter Two: Welsh and Anglo-Welsh Poetry 27 Chapter Three: R.S.Thomas and the Christian Religious Tradition 38 PART B. THE POETRY Chapter Four: A Poetry of Religious Experience 55 Chapter Five: The Seeds of Godhead 77 Chapter Six: God's Disappointment with Man: Mythopoeic Poetry 100 Chapter Seven: Man's Disappointment with God 115 A Dazzling Darkness Chapter Eight: The Gates to The Presence 133 PARTC. POSTSCRIPT 159 BIBLIOGRAPHY 161 APPENDIX : R.S.THOMAS AT SEVENTY 172 CURRICULUM ГТАЕ 183 " Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; Death closes all: but something ere the end Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. -
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Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism Published on behalf of the American Humanist Association and The Institute for Humanist Studies Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism Editor John R. Shook, American Humanist Association Consulting Editor Anthony Pinn, Rice University, USA Editorial Board Louise Antony, University of Massachusetts, USA; Arthur Caplan, New York University, USA; Patricia Churchland, University of California, USA; Franz de Waal, Emory University, USA; Peter Derkx, University of Humanistics, Netherlands; Greg Epstein, Harvard University, USA; Owen Flanagan, Duke University, USA; James Giordano, Georgetown University, USA; Rebecca Goldstein, USA; Anthony Clifford Grayling, New College of the Humanities, United Kingdom; Susan Hansen, University of Pittsburgh, USA; Jennifer Michael Hecht, USA; Marian Hillar, Houston Humanists, USA; Sikivu Hutchinson, Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations, USA; Philip Kitcher, Columbia University, USA; Stephen Law, University of London, United Kingdom; Cathy Legg, University of Waikato, New Zealand; Jonathan Moreno, University of Pennsylvania, USA; Stephen Pinker, Harvard University, USA; Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Purdue University, USA; Michael Shermer, The Skeptics Society, USA; Alistair J. Sinclair, Centre for Dualist Studies, United Kingdom; Stan van Hooft, Deakin University, Australia; Judy Walker, USA; Sharon Welch, Meadville Theological Seminary, USA Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism publishes scholarly papers concerning philosophical, historical, or interdisciplinary aspects of humanism, or that deal with the application of humanist principles to problems of everyday life. EPH encourages the exploration of aspects and applications of humanism, in the broadest sense of “philosophical” as a search for self-understanding, life wisdom, and improvement to the human condition. The topic of humanism is also understood to embrace its thoughtful manifestations across the widest breadth of cultures and historical periods, and non-western perspectives are encouraged.