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Emily Dickinson's approving God [electronic resource] : divine design and the problem of suffering / Patrick J. Keane.

By: Publication details: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2008.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 256 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780826266569 (electronic bk.)
  • 0826266568 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Emily Dickinson's approving God.DDC classification:
  • 811/.4 22
LOC classification:
  • PS1541.Z5 K36 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The poem and images of God -- Religion and science: Einstein's Spinozisti God -- God and evolution : the contemporary debate -- Design, challenged and defended -- Emily Dickinson on Christ and Crucifixion -- Destroyers and victims: "apparently with no surprise" and related scenarios -- Design and accident -- Frost, the blonde assassin -- Dickinson's death-haunted earthly paradise -- Flowers, and thoughts too deep for tears -- Questioning divine benevolence -- The final dialectic: believing and disbelieving.
Summary: "Focusing on Emily Dickinson's poem "Apparently with no surprise," Keane explores the poet's embattled relationship with the deity of her Calvinist tradition, reflecting on literature and religion, faith and skepticism, theology and science in light of continuing confrontations between Darwinism and design, science and literal conceptions of a divine Creator"--Provided by publisher.
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"Focusing on Emily Dickinson's poem "Apparently with no surprise," Keane explores the poet's embattled relationship with the deity of her Calvinist tradition, reflecting on literature and religion, faith and skepticism, theology and science in light of continuing confrontations between Darwinism and design, science and literal conceptions of a divine Creator"--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-236) and indexes.

The poem and images of God -- Religion and science: Einstein's Spinozisti God -- God and evolution : the contemporary debate -- Design, challenged and defended -- Emily Dickinson on Christ and Crucifixion -- Destroyers and victims: "apparently with no surprise" and related scenarios -- Design and accident -- Frost, the blonde assassin -- Dickinson's death-haunted earthly paradise -- Flowers, and thoughts too deep for tears -- Questioning divine benevolence -- The final dialectic: believing and disbelieving.

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