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Review Essay: Williams, Gary Jay. Our Moonlight Revels: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" In The Theatre. Studies In Theatre History And Culture Series, Lois Potter

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Williams, Gary Jay. Our Moonlight Revels: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in the Theatare. Studies in Theatre History and Culture Series, ed. Thomas Postlewait, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 1997. 340 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-877-45592-9.

Living In The Palaces Of Love: Love And The Soul In A Vision Of St. Aldegund Of Maubeuge (Ca. 635–684), Isabel Moreira

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Abbess Aldegund of Maubeuge, in dictating her visions to the cleric Subnius in her later years, recalled a vision she had experienced in her youth. She saw herself entering a heavenly mansion, richly bejeweled and "steeped" with Christ's "sweet odor." The vision had made a great impression on her. She accredited it with having matured her spiritual understanding, for having first misunderstood the vision's meaning, she now understood it, "the scales having fallen from her eyes." Yet as historians we are not as fortunate as Aldegund claimed to be. Many centuries removed from the events of the seventh century, the …

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The Book Of Margery Kempe: Religious Discourse And The Carnivalesque Woman, Kathryn Summers

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Both during her lifetime and since the full manuscript of her forceful autobiography was discovered, no one has quite known what to do with Margery Kempe. Even her staunchest contemporary supporters occasionally lost patience with her or worried that they had inadvertently allied themselves with the wrong side in the divine conflict. Margery followed all the conventional Christian forms: she passed repeated ecclesiastical trials for orthodoxy with flying colors; she went on all the right pilgrimages; she said numberless prayers and took countless communions; even her crying fits and most of her visions have been shown to reflect the experiences …

Allen D. Breck Award Winner (1998): "The City's Usuries": Commerce And Cymbeline, Goran V. Stanivukovic

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Scholarship on early modern masculinity and male sexuality has not considered Cymbeline at any great length. Yet Cymbeline is jammed with men embroiled with the difficulties of the quest for national identity, a quest connected with the complications of shaping man's erotic identity. In Cymbeline the construction of masculinity depends upon one man's measuring of himself against another man, for example, Posthumus against Iachimo, Cloten against Posthumus; of one male community against another, of Romans against Britons. It has been a traditional tendency of gender-oriented criticism to interpret male subjectivity in Cymbeline as part of the process of forging British …

Review Essay: Goldberg, Jonathan. Desiring Women Writing: English Renaissance Examples, Christy Desmet

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Goldberg, Jonathan. Desiring Women Writing: English Renaissance Examples. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1997- vii + 255 pp. ISBN 0-8047-2982-4. $45.00.

Review Essay: Hanson, Elizabeth. Discovering The Subject In Renaissance England, Louise Schleiner

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Hanson, Elizabeth. Discovering the Subject in Renaissance England. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. xii + 190 pp. $54.95; and Matchinske, Megan. Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England: Identity Formation and the Female Subject. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. xi + 247 pp. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-62254-9.

Japan And Ethiopia: An Appraisal Of Similarities And Divergent Courses, Messay Kebede

Philosophy Faculty Publications

The idea of a comparison between pre-1935 Ethiopia with Japan before and during the Meiji Restoration arouses contradictory reactions among students of Ethiopia. Some find the idea indefensible, others judge it quite reasonable and instructive. Those who reject the parallel do so by emphasizing the social gap which separated Japan and Ethiopia, while those who welcome the idea base their arguments on historical similarities and on the identity of objectives of their respective modernizing circles. Thus, among the first group, Shiferaw Bekele contests the seriousness of a parallel between Japan and Ethiopia, arguing that the Ethiopian leaders had only a …

1997 Colloquium Program, Taylor University

Colloquium Programs

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1997 Printed Program

Colloquium Schedules

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Al-Khawarizmi's Algebra: The First Paradigm In Algebra, Murad Jurdak

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Isabelle Merle's Review Of Nicholas Thomas's Colonialism’S Culture: Anthropology, Travel, And Government, Isabelle Merle

Pacific Studies

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Response By Nicholas Thomas On The Book Review Forum Of Colonialism’S Culture: Anthropology, Travel, And Government, Nicholas Thomas

Pacific Studies

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Bruce Kapferer's Review Of Nicholas Thomas's Colonialism’S Culture: Anthropology, Travel, And Government, Bruce Kapferer

Pacific Studies

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Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: Psychological Freedom Or Escape From Freedom?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the aspects of efforts to abolish nuclear weapons.

Dorothy L. Sayers And The Passionate Intellect, Roger Phillips

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

Dorothy L. Sayers wrote, “[W]here the intellect is dominant it becomes the channel of all other feelings. The ‘passionate intellect’ is really passionate. It is the only point at which ecstasy can enter.” While a phrase that is often used by biographers, the actual meaning of ‘passionate intellect’ is up for discussion. In exploring the life of Sayers one can see how she came to use this term and its meaning in the context of her life.

Presented at the 1997 Frances White Ewbank Colloquium.

Myth Made Truth: Origins Of The Chronicles Of Narnia, Mark Bane

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

The Chronicles of Narnia are some of C.S. Lewis’s most beloved books, but how did they come about and what was their purpose? By tracing his life, interests, and faith one can see how these elements shaped Lewis’s narrative of Narnia.

Presented at the 1997 Frances White Ewbank Colloquium.

C.S. Lewis: Past Watchful Dragons, Stephanie Jones

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

Through his many stories C.S. Lewis has a unique way in which he engages the reader, first catching them with an idea, then slipping past the “watchful dragons” of our intellect to speak to our deepest parts. These stories are often discussed intellectually, but it is also important to know how these stories impact readers on a personal level.

Presented at the 1997 Frances White Ewbank Colloquium.

Wordsmiths As Warriors: The Intellectual Honesty Of G.K. Chesterton And C.S. Lewis, Daryl Charles

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

The writings of G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis are rich with creativity and intellect, and maintain a strong defense for Christianity. They are models for the Christian apologist through their direct engagement with the world while loving it as Christ did.

Presented at the 1997 Frances White Ewbank Colloquium.

Cliffhangers And Extracts From Fact And Fantasy, Dan Hamilton

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

Through the study of original manuscripts one can discover clues as to the writing life of George MacDonald and his work published in serials.

Presented at the 1997 Frances White Ewbank Colloquium.

Full Issue 1997 (Volume 1)

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

The collected papers presented at the 1997 Frances White Ewbank Colloquium.

The Abolition Of Man: First Principles And Pre-Evangelism (Or "What C.S. Lewis Taught My Brother"), Ted Dorman

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

In his work, The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis expresses a powerful analysis of the modern philosophies of the day. By defending what was deemed subjective and revealing the end point of modern thought, he communicates the Gospel in a way that resonates with unbelievers.

Presented at the 1997 Frances White Ewbank Colloquium.

Till We Have Faces: A Restoration Of Perspective On The Condition Of Man, Joan Alexander

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

Man’s relationship to a Divine Being is one of the persisting concerns of literature, with modern leanings contending that God does not exist or does not involve himself with man. C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces concerns itself with this approach to God, proposing that it might not be God who is the problem but man’s perception of him.

Presented at the 1997 Frances White Ewbank Colloquium.

Human Destiny In That Hideous Strength, Wilfred Martens

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

Though the most different book from his space trilogy, That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis is an important part of the narrative within the trilogy. Whereas Out of the Silent Plant and Paralandra spoke of the battle of good and evil in distant space, That Hideous Strength presents the same battle happening on earth. This narrative poses a question of readers in a way that the others did not, asking them how they will respond to the battle happening in their home world. In doing so, Lewis presents a case on the nature of man and his influence over destiny. …

The Speaking Elephant: Rightly Dividing Macdonald's Fairy Tales, Darren Hotmire

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

Due to the mythopoetic nature of George MacDonald’s writings many interpretations have arisen as to the meaning of his work. By studying his sermons, letters, and other writings we can discover the intended meanings of his Fairy Tales.

Presented at the 1997 Frances White Ewbank Colloquium.

The Friendship Of Lewis And Tolkien, John Seland

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

Surveys the friendship of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien and how each influenced the other.

Presented at the 1997 Frances White Ewbank Colloquium.

Dorothy L. Sayers: Thinking Passionately, Marjorie Lamp Mead

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

Examines the life of Dorothy Sayers and her perspectives on the relationship between Christianity and reason. Presented at the 1997 Frances White Ewbank Colloquium.

Some Shattering Simplicity: Suffering, Love, And Faith In The Thought Of C.S. Lewis, Jennifer Woodruff

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

A repeated theme in the works of C.S. Lewis is the tension inherent in why and how we believe and accept Christianity. Christianity makes sense of reality, but at the same time shatters all our expectations of reality. Examining Lewis’s writings about the nature of suffering, faith, and love we learn how this is not a contradiction but a shattering simplicity that reveals the truth about reality.

Presented at the 1997 Frances White Ewbank Colloquium.

The Question Of Biblical Allegory In Tell We Have Faces, David Bedsole

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

In 1956, C.S. Lewis published a retelling of a pagan myth, Till We Have Faces. On the surface one may simply read it as a retelling, but considering his career as a theological author one can see how Till We Have Faces is rich with Christian themes and thought.

Presented at the 1997 Frances White Ewbank Colloquium.

C.S. Lewis: Lightbearer In The Shadowlands, Angus Menuge

Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016

Angus J.L. Menuge discusses editing his book, Lightbearer in the Shadowlands: The Evangelistic Vision of C.S. Lewis.

Presented at the 1997 Frances White Ewbank Colloquium.