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  • Arachne
    Amos N. Wilder / Amos NWilder
    Amos N. Wilder (1895-1993), New Testament scholar, poet, literary critic, and clergyman, received all earned degrees from Yale. His teaching career included posts at Andover Newton Theological School, Chicago Theological Seminary, the University of Chicago, and Harvard Divinity School. Special honors included the Golden Rose of the New England Poetry Club (1943) and the Bross P...
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    15,10 €

  • Kerygma, Eschatology, and Social Ethics (Stapled Booklet)
    Amos N. Wilder / Amos NWilder
    'The eschatological and dualistic symbolism of the early Christians has misled us into thinking that the Gospel in its classic period has no concern with what we call social change,' writes Wilder. Saint Paul’s apparently conservative social views must be understood in light of his expectation of Christ’s imminent return; his is an 'emergency ethic.' But going beyond Paul’s exp...
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    9,77 €

  • Early Christian Rhetoric
    Amos N. Wilder / Amos NWilder
    An illuminating New Testament study depicts the power and beauty of language that speaks with the words of God and man.Words call man to battle or summon him to prayer. More and more, today man is analyzing his language and asking: What is the purpose of language? What do the words we speak mean? What is their religious significance? Dr. Wilder’s extraordinary work attempts to ...
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    21,36 €

  • Theology and Modern Literature
    Amos N. Wilder / Amos NWilder
    We live in a world that calls for the separation of church and state, and the separation of religion and the arts is of a piece with this divided culture. However, this long-standing breach between Christianity and the arts narrows in view of the notable development of mutual interest and conversation between theology and literature.Dr. Wilder discusses this historic cleavage a...
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    19,55 €

  • New Testament Faith for Today
    Amos N. Wilder / Amos NWilder
    What was the faith behind the proclamations of Jesus, the message of Paul, and the Johannine witness--and how can it be recovered today? This penetrating and provocative book seeks to probe the various formulations of religious faith in the New Testament with a view to recovering the real essence and genius of Christianity today.Dr. Wilder sees three principal strains--often ha...
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    23,12 €

  • The Healing of the Waters
    Amos N. Wilder / Amos NWilder
    Amos Wilder’s poetry drew from an inexhaustible well of his Christian belief in the destiny of man and nature, seeking always to find fresh ways and language to invoke the imperatives of faith and spiritual life in a modern era. This collection of thirty-five poems, the third of Amos Wilder’s four books of published poetry, appeared in 1942 in the midst of World War II. Shaping...
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    17,06 €

  • The Spiritual Aspects of the New Poetry
    Amos N. Wilder / Amos NWilder
    The republication of this book resurrects a landmark volume hailed when published as 'the first major effort to assess modern poetry from the point of view of its contributions to the spiritual life of our times.' Resting on the assumption that poetry offers 'a mirror in which the world can know itself and in which it can read its deepest dilemmas and its deepest omens,' Wilder...
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    31,87 €

  • Imagining the Real
    Amos N. Wilder / Amos NWilder
    The graphic artist Margaret Rigg met Amos Wilder through The Society for Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture (ARC), of which Wilder, together with such figures as Joseph Campbell and Paul Tillich, was a founder in the early 1960s. In 1978 Rigg published Imagining the Real, a limited edition (350 copies with designs) as an expression of 'homage' to Wilder with a special emph...
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    10,87 €

  • Modern Poetry and the Christian Tradition
    Amos N. Wilder / Amos NWilder
    In Modern Poetry and the Christian Tradition, Wildler examines this movement in poetry in relation to the direction in which our culture is moving. He interprets the significance of modern poetry and shows its relation to the ''traditional.'' He gives attention to the representative poets of our time (including Dylan Thomas, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Allen Tate, W. H. Auden, Walla...
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    34,54 €

  • Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus
    Amos N. Wilder / Amos Wilder
    In recent years, studies in the eschatology and ethics of Jesus have provoked an unusual interest among Bible students. When talking about the coming of the kingdom, did Jesus mean that there would be a divine intervention or a catastrophe? If so, were his ethical teachings intended for an emergency situation--interim ethics?This book provides an admirable introduction to escha...
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    26,61 €

  • Otherworldliness and the New Testament
    Amos N. Wilder / Amos NWilder
    ''The one great and telling charge made against Christian religion in the modern period,'' writes Amos Wilder, ''is that it is otherworldly, escapist and irrelevant to the problems of life.''There is a good deal of truth in this charge, Dr. Wilder feels--whether we look at Catholicism or Protestantism, orthodoxy or liberalism. Christianity, in one way or another, has given the ...
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    18,79 €

  • Armageddon Revisited
    Amos N. Wilder / Amos NWilder
    Amos Wilder, a distinguished New Testament scholar and poet, was only a youth when he volunteered to serve as an ambulance driver with the American Field Service during World War I and then became a corporal in the Army’s 17th Field Artillery of the 2nd Division. His journals and letters home (including correspondence with his younger brother, Thornton Wilder) form the basis of...
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    23,10 €

  • Grace Confounding
    Amos N. Wilder / Amos NWilder
    Thirty-one poems, the great majority written and published in the 1950s and 1960s in such magazines and journals as The Christian Century and Christianity and Crisis, as well as a selections from two of his earlier collections. His important poem, 'A Hard Death,' the last Wilder work to appear in Poetry (1965), is also found here. The volume’s foreword, addressed to alert Chris...
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    11,97 €

  • Thornton Wilder and His Public
    Amos N. Wilder / Amos NWilder
    Thornton Wilder, three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, remains to many people an enigma. Malcolm Cowley indicated that ''in point of intelligent criticism, Wilder is the most neglected author of a brilliant generation,'' and the Times Literary Supplement once observed that ''Thornton Wilder has successfully resisted any kind of classification as a novelist or playwright.''In...
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    17,07 €

  • The Bible and the Literary Critic
    Amos N. Wilder / Amos NWilder
    This last of Amos Wilder’s published works in the field of religion and literature collects twelve previously published or unpublished essays written, with a single exception, in the 1980s. Found here is the record of his views of postmodernism and the work of such contemporary figures as Paul Ricoeur, George Steiner, Frank Kermode, and the late Norman Perrin. As background, Wi...
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    24,90 €

  • The New Voice
    Amos N. Wilder / Amos NWilder
    In The New Voice, Amos Wilder carries forward and combines two areas of activity represented in his earlier, groundbreaking publications. One of these is that of the theological critic, concerned with modern literature as it illuminates the quests of our age and the vicissitudes of our religious tradition, as found in his Modern Poetry and the Christian Tradition and Theology a...
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    31,02 €

  • Theopoetic
    Amos N. Wilder / Amos NWilder
    In today’s crucible of myths, theology has a special problem. Ancient scenarios provided by Scripture are especially vulnerable to the modern outlook.Amos Wilder, a distinguished scholar and critic, here relates the Christian faith, in depth, to the changes in modern man’s sense of reality, and to the powerful new forms of spirituality that reflect these changes. The focus is u...
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    17,93 €

  • Jesus’ Parables and the War of Myths
    Amos N. Wilder / Amos NWilder
    Amos Wilder is widely known as a pioneer of an indigenously North American approach to biblical interpretation which takes language to be an expression not only of psychological but also of sociological and concrete reality. Recording the history of his interest in eschatological language, Wilder further advances the literary and rhetorical criticism of Scripture, especially by...
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    22,26 €