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Mark Hansard

Faith and Doubt in Emily Dickinson’s “This World is not Conclusion”

January 15, 2017 by Mark Hansard 1 Comment

Image:  Daguerreotype of the poet Emily Dickinson, taken circa 1848, cropped and retouched. (Original is scratched.) From the Todd-Bingham Picture Collection and Family Papers, Yale University Manuscripts & Archives Digital Images Database, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. In the public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons. Reflection Emily Dickinson's poem, “This World is not Conclusion” is a paradigmatic example of her ambivalence about Christian faith. It reveals, as many of her poems do, her struggle … [Read more...] about Faith and Doubt in Emily Dickinson’s “This World is not Conclusion”

Filed Under: Devotional, Scholar's Compass Tagged With: American literature, devotional, doubt, Emily Dickinson, Scholar's Compass

Browning’s “Karshish the Arab Physician”

May 29, 2016 by Mark Hansard Leave a Comment

Mark Hansard shares another exploration of faith in Victorian literature. See previous posts exploring  Browning and faith  and Gerard Manley Hopkins  and how  aesthetic experience can point to God.   … [Read more...] about Browning’s “Karshish the Arab Physician”

Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: death, German Higher Criticism, healthcare, Karshish the Arab Physician, Lazarus, medicine, poetry, resurrection, Robert Browning, science

Piercing the o’erstretched doubt: Browning’s Apologetic in “A Death in the Desert”

May 8, 2016 by Mark Hansard 1 Comment

Robert Browning, the Victorian poet of the 19th century, is mainly remembered today for his fascinating dramatic monologues like My Last Duchess, and his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who was the more famous poet at the time they married. Browning became a formidable poet in his own right, and is nearly always included in contemporary anthologies of English Literature, as is his wife. … [Read more...] about Piercing the o’erstretched doubt: Browning’s Apologetic in “A Death in the Desert”

Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: A Death in the Desert, Apostle John, German Higher Criticism, Robert Browning

Aesthetic Experience and the Existence of God (Scholar’s Compass)

March 14, 2016 by Mark Hansard Leave a Comment

Reflection Recently I found myself reading excerpts from James Sire's book, Apologetics Beyond Reason. (You can read ESN's review here). As someone with a literature background myself, I found Sire's description of the purpose of literature, and an aesthetic experience through great literature as a pointer to the transcendent, very interesting. Sire says “When we read great literature’we are lifted out of ourselves into another world.” When we have an aesthetic experience through such literature, we have “direct … [Read more...] about Aesthetic Experience and the Existence of God (Scholar’s Compass)

Filed Under: Scholar's Compass Tagged With: aesthetic experience, Apologetics Beyond Reason, Gerard Manley Hopkins, intervarsity press, James Sire, Scholar's Compass

Book Review: A Change of Heart, by Thomas Oden

January 14, 2016 by Mark Hansard Leave a Comment

Thomas C. Oden is a fascinating figure in the history of 20th Century theology, and his new autobiography, A Change of Heart, is a fascinating read. Known for The Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture and Agenda for Theology, Oden writes a riveting tale about his early commitment to liberal theology and socialism, and then a 180-degree turn as he embraced classic Christianity and conservative thought in the early 1970s. Truly a remarkable story, Oden's work is well worth the time. … [Read more...] about Book Review: A Change of Heart, by Thomas Oden

Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: autobiography, Book Review, Center for Early African Christianity, conversion, intervarsity press, paleo-orthodoxy, patristic scholarship, theology, Thomas C. Oden, Thomas Oden

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