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Nathaniel Hawthorne And His Biblical Contexts, Conor Michael Walsh
Nathaniel Hawthorne And His Biblical Contexts, Conor Michael Walsh
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
The majority of criticism and scholarship devoted to the fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne takes for granted the relationship between Hawthorne and the Bible, focusing instead upon theology and philosophy. This work proposes that the Bible was an important and pervasive influence in Hawthorne's fiction. The Bible provides Hawthorne with numerous resources for both his artistic and moral concerns. At a basic level the Bible provides a popular platform that allows Hawthorne to immediately connect with his contemporary audience who were intimately familiar with the Bible. More importantly, though, are the vast examples and perspectives of the human condition and human …
"Have Salt In Yourselves, And Be At Peace With Each Other" The Irenic Theology Of Daniel Kałaj, Dariusz M. Bryćko
"Have Salt In Yourselves, And Be At Peace With Each Other" The Irenic Theology Of Daniel Kałaj, Dariusz M. Bryćko
CTS PhD Doctoral Dissertations
Daniel Kałaj (d.1681) was a Polish Reformer of Hungarian background, born in Little Poland (Małopolska) and trained in Franeker, Friesland under some of the most brilliant Reformed theologians of seventeenth-century Europe, such as Cocceius and Cloppenburgh. Kałaj’s ministry in the Reformed Church of Little Poland was abruptly interrupted when he was wrongly accused by Catholic authorities of spreading then-outlawed Arianism and being called a “Calvinoarian.” Kałaj became the first Polish Protestant minister to receive a sentence of capital punishment as a result of the new anti-toleration law issued in 1658 against Arians, under the false pretext of military treason during …