Paradigms of the past

1. Introduction -- 2. Mound Builders and Amateur Scientists: The Pre-1880 Era -- 3. Mounds and the American Paleolithic: 1881-1910 -- 4. The Birth of a Discipline: 1911-1940 -- 5. Understanding Time, Space, and Form: 1941-1960 -- 6. Salvage Archaeology and the Emergence of Environmental Studies: 1961-1976 -- 7. Archaeology as Big Business: The Late 1970s -- 8. Archaeology as the Science of Artifacts: The 1980s and 1990s -- 9. Interpretation versus Explanation: A Reflection on Missouri Archaeology.,Michael J. O'Brien.,Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-547) and index.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins and the language of mystery

I: Background and theory -- Introduction -- Mysterious certainty -- Things real : vision and revision -- :The synthesis of the succession : cadence and its theory -- II. Orion of light -- The wreck of the Deutschland (1875-1889) -- III. As the circling bird (1877-1889) -- To glean our Saviour : nature, humanity, God -- Mortal beauty : selfhood, variety mortality -- Sheer plod : creaturehood, drudgery, glory -- IV. Dark descending -- The terrible sonnets (1885).,Virginia Ridley Ellis.,Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-343) and index.
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Thief of lives

by Kit Reed.,Contents: In the Squalus -- Journey to the Center of the Earth -- Winter -- The Jonahs -- The Protective Pessimist -- Fourth of July -- The Garden Club -- Clement -- Queen of the Beach -- Thing of Snow -- Mr. Rabbit -- Academic Novel -- Victory Dreams -- Prisoner of War -- Thief of Lives.
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Milton and scriptural tradition

Introduction / Leland Ryken -- Scriptural formula and prophetic utterance in Lycidas / Michael Lieb -- Paradise lost and its Biblical epic models / Leland Ryken -- The council scenes in Paradise lost / Sister M. Christopher Pecheux -- Creation in reverse : the Book of Job and Paradise lost / Harold Fisch -- All-interpreting love : God's name in Scripture and in Paradise lost / Michael Fixler -- The Gospel of John and Paradise regained : Jesus as True Light / Stella Revard -- Milton and covenant : the Christian view of Old Testament theology / John T. Shawcross -- The Miltonic narrator and scriptural tradition : an afterword / James H. Sims.,edited by James H. Sims and Leland Ryken.,Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Milton's house of God

In Milton's House of God, Stephen R. Honeygosky examines the ecclesial center of a representative sampling of John Milton's prose written throughout his life. Interrelating this body of literature with Reformation and post-Reformation history and theology, Honeygosky argues that for Milton the two major dimensions of church (the invisible and the visible) have an inextricable, ongoing, intersecting-though-not-equivalent relationship. He shows that it is the dynamic interaction between the two out of which Milton's entire ecclesiology proceeds. Milton's House of God explores in depth Milton's concept of church and its relation to the True Church, which he came to believe was always invisibly and spiritually gathered because of its mystic incorporation with Christ. Honeygosky discusses the new visible manifestations of the True Church during the seventeenth century the doctrine that can be distilled even from Milton's not explicitly doctrinal tracts and the evident and consistent verbal pattern that he used to feed and foster a Radical-Reformist communion. Additionally, Honeygosky examines the transmutation of terms important for Milton. He demonstrates how Milton takes such traditional ecclesiological words as worship, separation, schism, license, heresy, holiness, Scripture, and Sacrament, rejects their standard usage, then empties the terms of their expected import before renovating and reappropriating them once again. Honeygosky concludes that the fundamental Miltonic definition of church is the individual believing reader of sacred texts who has become an interfusion of sacred place, text, and action - a veritable House of God. Thus, Milton's ecclesiology results in a new mythic form derived from and designated for mid-seventeenth-century English culture. The believing and reading individual is the most basic House of God, the embodied consolidation of Church and Scripture and Sacrament.,1. Luther's reform: a view to Christians in earnest and their truly evangelical order -- 2. Milton's ecclesiology: The real house and church of the living God -- 3. That mystic body and societ[ies] of persons within the whole multitute : vertical and horizontal mystical union -- 4. Rites and methods which [God] himself has prescribed : solution to the riddle of true reform -- 5. To stand separated : a rite of communion for the unanimous multitude of good protestants -- Many schisms and many distinctions : a goodly and graceful building -- 7. When they cry liberty : a rehetoric of license for bad men -- 8. Heresie : against the light of God's secretary -- 9. Regenerated by God : the dignity of the individual believer -- 10. Thir own abilities and the church : vocation to the new ministry -- 11. All sorts of degrees of men : scripture's new audience and messengers -- 12. If the word is used loosely : sacrament revised -- 13. A true and living faith : the ceremony of works -- 14. Charity or holiness of life : spiritual principle linking the inner and outer worlds -- 15. Written records pure : myth-making the new external scripture -- Conclusion: Kenosis: God's and Milton's reforming rhetorical invention.,Stephen R. Honeygosky.,Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-248) and index.
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Letters from the Pacific

In Letters from the Pacific, Russell Stroup offers readers the opportunity to see the effects of war from his unique perspective - as a chaplain on the front lines of the South Pacific theater. For the three years Stroup served in the military, he continually wrote home to his family in Virginia. Composed under harrowing combat conditions, yet filled with humor and personality, these letters convey his search for meaning and purpose in the midst of world war. Edited, annotated, and introduced by Richard Cartwright Austin, Stroup's letters provide the most probing insight into a combat chaplain's role currently available. --BOOK JACKET.,Russell Cartwright Stroup ; edited with an introduction by Richard Cartwright Austin.
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New mandate

Louis A. Ferleger and Jay R. Mandle.,A collection of revised essays originally written between 1986 and 1993 and previously published in various journals.,Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-143) and index.
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