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German literature --- Religion in literature

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Le bonheur : idée neuve ou trop vieux rêve ? Douce utopie ou vrai projet ? En tout cas, quand un philosophe se lève avec Jean-Jacques Rousseau en 1749, c'est en son nom : le bonheur constitue son horizon et son programme, sa vocation et son présent, à la fois quête personnelle et seul don qu'il estime devoir à l'homme. Or il se trouve que, face au philosophe Rousseau, se met bientôt à parler aussi le romancier Jean-Jacques, et face au penseur le croyant. Quant au bonheur, que devient-il une fois pris entre les deux ? Cet ouvrage étudie le rapport du bonheur et de la croyance à travers l'oeuvre du Citoyen de Genève.

Happiness --- Religion --- Philosophy and religion --- Happiness in literature --- Religion in literature --- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, - 1712-1778

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Illuminating the religious and existential themes in Stephen King’s horror stories Who are we? Why are we here? Where do we go when we die? For answers to these questions, people often look to religion. But religion is not the only place seekers turn. Myths, legends, and other stories have given us alternative ways to address the fundamental quandaries of existence. Horror stories, in particular, with their focus on questions of violence and mortality, speak urgently to the primal fears embedded in such existential mysteries. With more than fifty novels to his name, and hundreds of millions of copies sold, few writers have spent more time contemplating those fears than Stephen King. Yet despite being one of the most widely read authors of all time, King is woefully understudied. America’s Dark Theologian is the first in-depth investigation into how King treats religion in his horror fiction. Considering works such as Carrie, The Dead Zone, Misery, The Shining, and many more, Douglas Cowan explores the religious imagery, themes, characters, and, most importantly, questions that haunt Stephen King’s horror stories. Religion and its trappings are found throughout King’s fiction, but what Cowan reveals is a writer skeptical of the certainty of religious belief. Describing himself as a “fallen away” Methodist, King is less concerned with providing answers to our questions, than constantly challenging both those who claim to have answers and the answers they proclaim. Whether he is pondering the existence of other worlds, exploring the origins of religious belief and how it is passed on, probing the nature of the religious experience, or contemplating the existence of God, King invites us to question everything we think we know.

Religion in literature. --- Theology in literature. --- King, Stephen, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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"This book is about allusions to the Bible in Shakespeare's plays. It argues that such allusions are frequent, deliberate, and significant, and that the study of these allusions is repaid by a deeper understanding of the plays."--Introduction

Religion in literature. --- Reformation in literature. --- Shakespeare, William, --- Religion --- Et la Bible --- Religion. --- Bible --- In literature. --- Fontaine, de La, Jean --- Shakespeare, William --- Et la Bible. --- Shakespeare, William, - 1564-1616 - Religion. --- Shakespeare, William, - 1564-1616 --- Religion in literature --- Reformation in literature

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What can I do? To what degree do we control our own desires, actions, and fate - or not? These questions haunt us, and have done so, in various forms, for thousands of years. Timothy Rosendale explores the problem of human will and action relative to the Divine - which Luther himself identified as the central issue of the Reformation - and its manifestations in English literary texts from 1580-1670. After an introduction which outlines the broader issues from Sophocles and the Stoics to twentieth-century philosophy, the opening chapter traces the theological history of the agency problem from the New Testament to the seventeenth century. The following chapters address particular aspects of volition and salvation (will, action, struggle, and blame) in the writings of Marlowe, Kyd, Shakespeare, Ford, Herbert, Donne, and Milton, who tackle these problems with an urgency and depth that resonate with parallel concerns today.

English literature --- History and criticism. --- Religion in literature. --- Will in literature. --- Religion in drama --- Religion in poetry