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The book's preface stated that "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" was "the unexpected poetry success of the year from Bookworm's point of view"; the poem had "provoked an extraordinary response... the requests started coming in almost immediately and over the following weeks the demand rose to a total of some thirty thousand.
The theme of God's "death" became more explicit in the theosophism [clarification needed] of the 18th- and 19th-century mystic William Blake.In his intricately engraved illuminated books, Blake sought to throw off the dogmatism of his contemporary Christianity and, guided by a lifetime of vivid visions, examine the dark, destructive, and apocalyptic undercurrent of theology.
Jerome: "But if the dead shall bury the dead, we ought not to be careful for the dead but for the living, lest while we are anxious for the dead, we ourselves should be counted dead." [4] Gregory the Great: "The dead also bury the dead, when sinners protect sinners. They who exalt sinners with their praises, hide the dead under a pile of words ...
The same review criticized the book for its "graphic description of sexual activity" [14] and for portraying Mary Magdalene as a repentant prostitute, an idea that is not based on the Bible. [ 14 ] In an article for Salon , Robert M. Price , an atheist theologian and self-identified fan of Bill O'Reilly, labels Killing Jesus a work of complete ...
From the medieval era to 1886, the Apocalypse of Peter was known only through quotations and mentions in early Christian writings. [15] A fragmented Koine Greek manuscript was discovered during excavations initiated by Gaston Maspéro during the 1886–87 season in a desert necropolis at Akhmim in Upper Egypt.
David Bentley Hart, reviewing the book in the Christian journal First Things, interpreted the book as a "rollicking burlesque, without so much as a pretense of logical order or scholarly rigor". [48] Hart says "On matters of simple historical and textual fact, moreover, Hitchens' book is so extraordinarily crowded with errors that one soon ...
The Antichrist (German: Der Antichrist) [i] is a book by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1895. [ 1 ] Although the work was written in 1888, its content made Franz Overbeck and Heinrich Köselitz delay its publication, along with Ecce Homo .
The essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson had a profound influence on Nietzsche, who "loved Emerson from first to last", [240] wrote "Never have I felt so much at home in a book", and called him "[the] author who has been richest in ideas in this century so far". [241] Hippolyte Taine influenced Nietzsche's view on Rousseau and Napoleon. [242]