Research Catalog

Title

Common grace : life and faith in classic literature / compiled by Mary Batchelor.

Publication

Peabody, Mass. : Hendrickson Publishers, [2005].

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Details

Additional Authors

Batchelor, Mary.

Description

413 p.; 25 cm.

Uniform Title

Lion literature collection on the human and the divine.

Subject

Faith > Literary collections

Genre/Form

Literary collections

Note

• Originally published: The Lion literature collection on the human and the divine. Oxford, England : Lion Hudson, c2003.
• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Pt. 1: The world we live in -- Home -- New testament second letter to the Corinthians -- New testament gospel of John -- J.R.R. Tolkien -- Kenneth Grahame -- C.S. Lewis -- Charles Dickens -- J.M. Coetzee -- Countryside and animals -- Old testament books of Psalms -- Francis Kilvert -- Dorothy Wordsworth -- George MacDonald -- Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter) -- Hans Christian Anderson -- Aldous Huxley -- Gilbert White -- James Boswell -- Charles Dickens -- Rudyard Kipling -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Hugh Lofting -- Anna Sewell -- Evelyn Waugh -- Food -- New testament gospel of John -- Kenneth Grahame -- Doris Lessing -- George Borrow -- Samuel Pepys -- Henry Handel Richardson (Ethel Robertson) -- Charles Dickens -- Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) -- Thomas Love Peacock -- Walter Brueggemann -- The church and its people -- New testament letter to the Ephesians -- New testament letter to Timothy -- Alexander Pope -- Francis Kilvert -- Jonathan Swift -- G.K. Chesterton --^
• William Golding -- Malcolm Muggeridge -- Alan Bennett -- P.D. James -- J.B. Phillips -- Iris Murdoch -- Elizabeth Goudge -- Pt. 2: Being human -- Happiness, laughter and recreation -- Old testament book of Psalms -- Old testament book of Ecclesiastes -- William Law -- William Cowper -- G.K. Chesterton -- Laurence Sterne -- Iris Murdoch -- Marcel Proust -- Elizabeth Gaskell -- Miguel de Cervantes -- Izaak Walton -- Thomas Hardy -- Francis Kilvert -- Charles Dickens -- Kenneth Grahame -- Giving and self-giving -- New testament second letter to the Corinthians -- Elizabeth Gaskell -- A.A. Milne -- The Venerable Bede -- Louisa May Alcott -- Charles Dickens -- John Foxe -- O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) -- Alan Paton -- Suffering -- Old testament book of Lamentations -- Old testament book of Daniel -- New testament second letter to the Corinthians -- Blaise Pascal -- John Newton -- Susan Howatch -- Daniel Defoe -- Thomas More -- Charles Lamb -- Eleanor Spence -- Alexander Whyte --^
• Grief and loss -- Old testament second book of Samuel -- Laurence Sterne -- Charles Dickens -- C.S. Lewis -- Francis Kilvert -- Susan Hill -- William Shakespeare -- Penelope Lively -- Thomas Gray -- Human love -- Old testament book of the Song of Songs -- Dante Alighieri -- George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) -- Aldous Huxley -- George Bernard Shaw -- Marcel Proust -- Jane Austen -- Fyodor Dostoevsky -- Pt. 3: Knowing God -- The cross and the resurrection -- New testament first letter of Peter -- New testament first letter to the Corinthians -- C.S. Lewis -- John Bunyan -- Dorothy L. Sayers -- Thomas à Kempis -- William Penn -- John Grisham -- Malcolm Muggeridge -- Leo Tolstoy -- Piers Paul Read -- John Irving -- Repentance, forgiveness and reconciliation -- New testament gospel of Luke -- Aldous Huxley -- G.K. Chesterton -- Charles Dickens -- John Bunyan -- Les Murray -- Herman Melville -- Paul Scott -- Prayer and the presence of God -- New testament gospel of Matthew --^
• Old testament book of Genesis -- William Law -- John Donne -- Leo Tolstoy -- Teresa of Avila -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- Maya Angelou (Marguerite Johnson) -- Teresa of Avila -- Margery Kempe -- Samuel Johnson -- Divine love -- Old testament book of Hosea -- New testament first letter of John -- Julian of Norwich -- William Langland -- Simone Weil -- Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) -- The cloud of unknowing -- Graham Greene -- Last things -- New testament second letter of Peter -- New testament book of Revelation -- John Donne -- C.S. Lewis -- John Bunyan -- The Brothers Grimm -- Richard Baxter -- Pt. 4: Good and evil -- Angels and devils -- New testament gospel of Luke -- New testament first letter of Peter -- Beryl Bainbridge -- John Bunyan -- C.S. Lewis -- Joseph Conrad -- C.S. Lewis -- Goodness and strivings for goodness -- New testament letter to the Romans -- Old testament book of Micah -- Charles Lamb -- Samuel Butler -- Mark Twain (Samuel Longhorne Clemens) -- Oscar Wilde --^
• Melvyn Bragg -- Jeremy Taylor -- Anthony Trollope -- Maya Angelou (Marguerite Johnson) -- George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) -- Peter Ackroyd -- Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter) -- Laura Ingalls Wilder -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- Reaching out to others -- Old testament book of Amos -- The Venerable Bede -- Charles Kingsley -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Charles Dickens -- George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) -- Daniel Defoe -- Elizabeth Gaskell -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- Foibles and vices -- New testament letter to the Colossians -- Jane Austen -- Beatrix Potter -- Samuel Pepys -- Arnold Bennett -- George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) -- Samuel Butler -- William Langland -- Rose Macaulay -- Truth and pretence -- New testament gospel of John -- New testament first letter of John -- William Makepeace Thackeray -- Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) -- Tom Wolfe -- Beatrix Potter -- Dorothy L. Sayers -- T.S. Eliot -- War and peace -- Old testament book of Micah -- Old testament first book of Samuel --^
• Wilfred Owen -- Abraham Lincoln -- Jonathan Swift -- Sebastian Faulks -- Winston Churchill -- John Betjeman -- Richard Baxter -- Leo Tolstoy -- Pt. 5: The cycle of life -- Birth, childhood and youth -- Old testament book of Psalms -- New testament gospel of Luke -- Tim Winton -- E.M. Forster -- L.P. Hartley -- Maxim Gorky (Aleksei Maximovich Peshkov) -- Daisy Ashford -- Anton Chekhov -- Kenneth Grahame -- Dorothy L. Sayers -- Dennis Potter -- Age -- Old testament book of Ecclesiastes -- Barbara Pym -- Muriel Spark -- The Brothers Grimm -- Ivan Turgenev -- Margaret Forster -- Christina Stead -- Anne Tyler -- Death and dying -- New testament book of Acts -- Cuthbert, Abbot of Wearmouth and Jarrow -- John Bunyan -- Francis Bacon -- James Boswell -- John Updike -- Peter Ackroyd -- Evelyn Waugh -- The Brothers Grimm -- Muriel Spark -- John Donne -- Pope John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli).

ISBN

1565636031 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005011141

OCLC

• 59360007
• SCSB-11844390

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library