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Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud is a book written by Philip Yancey and published by Zondervan in 1988. [1] It is one of Yancey's early bestsellers . [ 2 ] Library Journal reviewer Elise Chase called the book "extraordinarily empathetic and persuasive; highly recommended". [ 3 ]
Arrow of God, published in 1964, is the third novel by Chinua Achebe. Along with Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease , it is considered part of The African Trilogy , sharing similar settings and themes.
But, in truth, the word 'God' is used in most cases—not by the Bishops of Winchester and Gloucester, but by mankind in general—as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term of poetry and eloquence, a term thrown out, so to speak, at a not fully grasped object of the speaker's consciousness,—a literary term, in short; and ...
Meijer, Reinder (1971), Literature of the Low Countries: A Short History of Dutch Literature in the Netherlands and Belgium, New York: Twayne Publishers, pp. 55– 57, 62, ISBN 978-9024721009; Takahashi, Genji (1953), A Study of Everyman with Special Reference to the Source of its Plot, Ai-iku-sha, pp. 33– 39, OCLC 8214306
The criterion of embarrassment is a long-standing [vague] tool of New Testament research. The phrase was used by John P. Meier in his 1991 book A Marginal Jew; he attributed it to Edward Schillebeeckx (1914–2009), who does not appear to have actually used the term in his written works.
The prophet Jeremiah lamenting the fall of Jerusalem, engraving by Gustave Doré, 1866. A jeremiad is a long literary work, usually in prose, but sometimes in verse, in which the author bitterly laments the state of society and its morals in a serious tone of sustained invective, and always contains a prophecy of society's imminent downfall.
The main character, Caleb Williams is of humble birth, unusual for Godwin, since his characters are often persons of wealth and title. [3] Caleb Williams, a poor, self-educated, orphaned young man, and the novel's first-person narrator, is recommended for a job on the estate of the wealthy Ferdinando Falkland.
People who rate themselves as more empathic are more likely to experience vicarious embarrassment. [4] The effect is present whether or not the observed party is aware of the embarrassing nature of their actions, although awareness generally increases the strength of the felt vicarious embarrassment, as does an accidental (as opposed to ...