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  • A Guidebook to Monsters

    Philosophy, Religion, and the Paranormal

    by Ryan J. Stark ...
    Ryan J. Stark surveys the classic monsters in great literature and film, television, the Bible, and, perhaps unexpectedly, the world in which we live. Monsterdom is real, Stark observes, but often hidden beneath the concealment spell of modern secular thought. This guidebook aims to break that spell, and, if so, to confirm once more a world that brims with high strangeness, or what Christian ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Biblical Sterne

    Rhetoric and Religion in the Shandyverse

    by Ryan J. Stark ...
    Series series New Directions in Religion and Literature
    Is Laurence Sterne one of the great Christian apologists? Ryan Stark recommends him as such, perhaps to the detriment of the parson's roguish reputation. The book's aim, however, is not to dispel roguishness but rather to discern the theological motives behind Sterne's comic rhetoric, from Tristram Shandy and the sermons to A Sentimental Journey. To this end, Stark reveals a veritable avalanche of ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson

    Resisting Secularism

    by Melvyn New, Donald R. Wehrs, John A. Dussinger, Regina Janes, E. Derek Taylor, Robert G. Walker, Patrick Müller, Steven Scherwatzky, Katherine Kickel0, Nicholas Seager1, Geoff Newton2, Ryan J. Stark3, Brett C. McInelly4, Paul Tankard5, Deborah Heller6, Frans de Bruyn7, Roger D. Lund8, Nathalie Zimpfer9 ...
    Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism contains seventeen essays exploring the complex relationships between literary intentions and theological concerns of authors writing in the second half of the eighteenth century. The diversity of literary forms and subjects, from Fielding and Richardson to Burke and Wollstonecraft, is matched by a diversity of approaches and ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

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