The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... Christian hermeneutics, and therefore of Christian allegorical poetry, was the influence of Homeric hermeneutics on the interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures by Philo Judaeus, who in turn influenced Origen, the first important Christian ...
... Christian hermeneutics, and therefore of Christian allegorical poetry, was the influence of Homeric hermeneutics on the interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures by Philo Judaeus, who in turn influenced Origen, the first important Christian ...
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... Christian achievement. It is to be found in one of the most remarkable and influential examples of allegorical interpretation: the commentary on Genesis in Augustine's Confessions (late 4th c), where it is said that God has given us not ...
... Christian achievement. It is to be found in one of the most remarkable and influential examples of allegorical interpretation: the commentary on Genesis in Augustine's Confessions (late 4th c), where it is said that God has given us not ...
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... Christian—his sparing references have a disproportionate resonance. Spen-ser's age witnessed a selfconscious neomedievalism, expressed in art, architecture, public ceremony, and literature; the chivalric paraphernalia of earlier times ...
... Christian—his sparing references have a disproportionate resonance. Spen-ser's age witnessed a selfconscious neomedievalism, expressed in art, architecture, public ceremony, and literature; the chivalric paraphernalia of earlier times ...
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... Christians must be incorporated by divine grace into the body of Christ. Then they may participate in his perfect righteousness and so be justified, receiving salvation by grace alone and cooperating with grace in order to achieve good ...
... Christians must be incorporated by divine grace into the body of Christ. Then they may participate in his perfect righteousness and so be justified, receiving salvation by grace alone and cooperating with grace in order to achieve good ...
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