Authors and Authority
Authors and Authority

Author: Patrick Parrinder

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780231076470

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One of the great paradoxes of modern times is that the more scientists understand the natural world, the more we discover that our everyday beliefs about it are wrong. Neil F. Comins has identified and classified, by origin and topic, over 1,700 commonly held misconceptions about the universe. He presents the reader with the tools needed to probe erroneous notions so that we can begin to question for ourselves... and to think more like scientists.

The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature
The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature

Author: Rebecca Lemon

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-02-28

Total Pages: 959

ISBN-13: 1118241150

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This Companion explores the Bible's role and influence on individual writers, whilst tracing the key developments of Biblical themes and literary theory through the ages. An ambitious overview of the Bible's impact on English literature – as arguably the most powerful work of literature in history – from the medieval period through to the twentieth-century Includes introductory sections to each period giving background information about the Bible as a source text in English literature, and placing writers in their historical context Draws on examples from medieval, early-modern, eighteenth-century and Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist literature Includes many 'secular' or 'anti-clerical' writers alongside their 'Christian' contemporaries, revealing how the Bible's text shifts and changes in the writing of each author who reads and studies it