TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keane,Patrick J.
TI  - Emily Dickinson's approving God: divine design and the problem of suffering 
SN  - 9780826266569 (electronic bk.)
AV  - PS1541.Z5 K36 2008eb
U1  - 811/.4 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Columbia
PB  - University of Missouri Press
KW  - Dickinson, Emily,
KW  - Theology in literature
KW  - Belief and doubt in literature
KW  - Religion and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Literature and science
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based on print version record; 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
N2  - "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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