Monstrous Fictions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Monstrous Fictions write by Carl J. Rasmussen. This book was released on 2016-09-14. Monstrous Fictions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Reformer John Calvin has influenced America in a formative way. Calvin remains respected as a theologian to whose work intellectuals on both the right and left appeal. In the nineteen-nineties, Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT) formed a politically influential ecumenical coalition to oppose abortion and change the culture. Its ecumenism of the trenches influenced the administration of George W. Bush and continues to influence religious elements in the Tea Party. Evangelicals in the coalition presume to speak for Calvin. This book provides a counter argument. Calvin rejects the ethics advocated by ECT, an ethics of individual virtue, conscience and natural right. Instead, he affirms an ethics of obedience to the authority of secular government as an institution with a divinely ordained mandate. This work considers the following themes in Calvin: Calvin on Faith. Modern and postmodern philosophical approaches, including Reformed epistemology, do not explain how Calvin understood faith. Faith is divine activity. Belief is human activity. Faith is not a belief system or worldview on which to base a political theology. The author provides four Augustinian theses about Calvin on faith Calvin on Sanctification. Calvin rejected virtue ethics or an ethics of individual conscience. His ethics require self-denial and service. An important requirement of his ethics is obedience to government. The author provides three theses about Calvin on sanctification, as a critique of attempts to revive virtue ethics. Calvin on Natural Law. Calvin’s doctrine of natural law is one of the most vexed issues in Calvin studies. The author provides five theses to clarify Calvin’s doctrine of natural law. For Calvin, secular government transcends the authority of conscience, and Christians in conscience are required to obey it. In conclusion, the author discusses Karl Barth’s interpretation of Calvin and its relevance for the church struggle against the Third Reich. Based on his analysis of Calvin, he provides a defense of gay marriage and the right to terminate a pregnancy, as well as an analysis of religious freedom. Calvin would reject ECT’s theology of virtue, conscience and natural law. But he would affirm its ecumenism as a possible path out of culture war.
Young Adult Gothic Fiction
Young Adult Gothic Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Young Adult Gothic Fiction write by Michelle J. Smith. This book was released on 2021-06-15. Young Adult Gothic Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focus on young adult literature - This focus on young adult literature means that this book expands scholarship specifically in this area. Focus on the Gothic for young people – Gothic texts are very popular in children’s and young adult literature, but there hasn’t been a lot of scholarship on the Gothic for adolescents. This book expands our knowledge of how the Gothic intersects with young adult literature. Includes coverage of YA fiction from the UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, a range of genres that intersect with the Gothic (including historical fiction and fairy tale), as well as forms such as the short story and graphic novel.
Monstrous Bodies
Monstrous Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Monstrous Bodies write by June Pulliam. This book was released on 2014-07-15. Monstrous Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recent works of young adult fantastic fiction such as Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga have been criticized for glamorizing feminine subordination. But YA horror fiction with female protagonists who have paranormal abilities suggests a resistance to restrictive gender roles. The "monstrous Other" is a double with a difference, a metaphor of the Western adolescent girl pressured to embody an untenable doll-like feminine ideal. This book examines what each of three types of female monstrous Others in young adult fiction--the haunted girl, the female werewolf and the witch--has to tell us about feminine subordination in a supposedly post-feminist world, where girls continue to be pressured to silence their voices and stifle their desires.
Monstrous Youth
Monstrous Youth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Monstrous Youth write by Sara Austin. This book was released on 2022-05-12. Monstrous Youth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces depictions of monstrosity in children's media from the 1950s to the present to show its evolving role in shaping discourses of identity and difference in popular culture.
Monster Portraits
Monster Portraits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Monster Portraits write by Sofia Samatar. This book was released on 2018. Monster Portraits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American children growing up in the 1980s. Operating under the sign of two—texts and drawings, brother and sister, black and white, extraordinary and everyday —Monster Portraits multiplies, disintegrates, and blends, inviting the reader to find the danger in the banal, the beautiful in the grotesque. Accumulating into a breathless journey and groundbreaking study, these brief fictions and sketches claim the monster as a fragmentary vastness: not the sum but the derangement of its parts."--Amazon.com.
