George Herbert And The Business Of Practical Piety
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George Herbert And The Business Of Practical Piety
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Author : Ceri Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-04-25
George Herbert And The Business Of Practical Piety written by Ceri Sullivan and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Contemporary nudge theory points out that people make good choices over issues where they have had past experience of similar circumstances, where there is reliable, substantial, and relevant information about the situation, and where they will get prompt feedback about the effect of their decision. Yet none of these conditions apply to the most vital choice of action facing early modern Protestants: how can they be saved? In George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety, Ceri Sullivan uses nudge theory to show how practical divinity disregards the doleful conclusions of predestination--that salvation cannot be earned--to supply readers with suggestions on how to prepare to act, regardless of their final destiny. Such texts create cognitive niches to support cheerful, godly thought and action, in a way which is far from being despairing or compulsive. Their nudges were repeatedly put into practice by Herbert's friends, the Ferrars, who tried to form an ideal religious community at Little Gidding. These prescriptions and examples illustrate how George Herbert's The Temple (1633) is a compendium of the techniques of choice architecture. Herbert's poems are full of the humour emerging from a life of faith which is willing to guard high ideals by low cunning, stooping to use the least little things to change a self. George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety initially calls on theories of the extended mind to ask what sort of minor physical and social structures scaffold decisions, then examines a selection of nudges used by Herbert: contracts with the self, building a mind, cleaning a heart, conversing with God, making to-do lists, and working on working well.
George Herbert
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Author : Joseph Summers
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2018-08-23
George Herbert written by Joseph Summers and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
George Herbert has for centuries been admired by the religious for his piety and by lovers of poetry for his language and his wit. In the present volume, Professor Summers seeks to abolish this dualism of approach: he is concerned throughout to demonstrate Herbert’s religion as it is expressed in his poems, and to interpret the poems in the light of his religion, for they are a “picture” of meticulously observed spiritual experience. He gives us a scholarly, lucid, and integrated study of a much-loved poet, who was at once a good man, a profound Christian thinker, and a most daring experimentalist in the craft of verse. Professor Summers charts the many currents and cross-currents of early seventeenth century religious thought that affected Herbert, traces the stages of the poet’s life, and then proceeds to a thorough examination of the form and content of his work. There are interesting chapters on his metrical “counterpoint,” his dramatic-colloquial style, and the influence of music upon his poetry. This is not only an authoritative study of the poet himself but a notable contribution to the problem, so keenly discussed today, of religious belief in relation to poetry.
George Herbert
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Author : Joseph Summers
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2018-08-23
George Herbert written by Joseph Summers and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
George Herbert has for centuries been admired by the religious for his piety and by lovers of poetry for his language and his wit. In the present volume, Professor Summers seeks to abolish this dualism of approach: he is concerned throughout to demonstrate Herbert’s religion as it is expressed in his poems, and to interpret the poems in the light of his religion, for they are a “picture” of meticulously observed spiritual experience. He gives us a scholarly, lucid, and integrated study of a much-loved poet, who was at once a good man, a profound Christian thinker, and a most daring experimentalist in the craft of verse. Professor Summers charts the many currents and cross-currents of early seventeenth century religious thought that affected Herbert, traces the stages of the poet’s life, and then proceeds to a thorough examination of the form and content of his work. There are interesting chapters on his metrical “counterpoint,” his dramatic-colloquial style, and the influence of music upon his poetry. This is not only an authoritative study of the poet himself but a notable contribution to the problem, so keenly discussed today, of religious belief in relation to poetry.
The British Millennial Harbinger
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1863
The British Millennial Harbinger written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1863 with Churches of Christ categories.
The International Library Of Famous Literature
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
The International Library Of Famous Literature written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Literature categories.
Herbert S Poems With His Country Parson A New Edition To Which Is Prefixed The Life Of The Author From I Walton
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Author : George Herbert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1809
Herbert S Poems With His Country Parson A New Edition To Which Is Prefixed The Life Of The Author From I Walton written by George Herbert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1809 with categories.
The Works Of George Herbert
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Author : George Herbert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1838
The Works Of George Herbert written by George Herbert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1838 with categories.
George Sandys
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Author : James Ellison
language : en
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date : 2002
George Sandys written by James Ellison and has been published by DS Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Caroline poet George Sandys had an exceptionally interesting early career as traveller and colonist; this study of his work following his return to England sheds new light on the expression of religious and political moderation prior to the Civil War. The poet George Sandys is one of the most interesting figures of the Renaissance period, his life and career encompassing a number of varied aspects. As a colonialist leader in Virginia he and his colleagues pursued a lenient policy towards the Indians which nearly cost the colony its existence. Returning to England, and settling at Great Tew along with other poets such as William Chillingworth and Lord Falkland, he won limited favour at the Caroline court; although he was loyal to the king, and adopted a richly Laudian style for his religious verse, he was implacably opposed to the divisive and confrontational policies of the Laudian church, and became an increasingly outspoken critic of absolutist government. His last work, a translation of a Latin religious play by Hugo Grotius, was the first in a series of literary attacks by moderate Royalists on Archbishop Laud.This book, the first recent examination of his life and work, sheds new light both on an unjustly neglected figure, and on the literature of religious and political moderation prior to the Civil War. JAMES ELLISON is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde.
The Ridpath Library Of Universal Literature
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Author : John Clark Ridpath
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
The Ridpath Library Of Universal Literature written by John Clark Ridpath and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Literature categories.
The Book Of Authors
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Author : William Clark Russell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
The Book Of Authors written by William Clark Russell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with Authors, English categories.