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Autore |
Sayers Dorothy L. |
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The mind of the maker / / Dorothy L. Sayers |
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London, [England] : , : Mowbray, , 1994 |
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©1994 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-71021-4 |
9786612710216 |
1-4411-2992-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Christianity - Philosophy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: 1994. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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CONTENTS; CHAPTER I. THE ""LAWS"" OF NATURE AND OPINION; CHAPTER II. THE IMAGE OF GOD; CHAPTER III. IDEA, ENERGY, POWER; CHAPTER IV. THE ENERGY REVEALED IN CREATION; CHAPTER V. FREE WILL AND MIRACLE; CHAPTER VI. THE ENERGY INCARNATE IN SELF-EXPRESSION; CHAPTER VII. MAKER OF ALL THINGS-MAKER OF ILL THINGS; CHAPTER VIII. PENTECOST; CHAPTER IX. THE LOVE OF THE CREATURE; CHAPTER X. SCALENE TRINITIES; CHAPTER XI. PROBLEM PICTURE; POSTSCRIPT: THE WORTH OF THE WORK; APPENDIX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Dorothy L Sayers' great lay contemporaries in the Church of England were T. S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams, but none of them wrote a book quite like The Mind of the Maker. In this crisp, elegant exercise in theology, Sayers illuminates the doctrine of the Trinity by relating it to the process of writing fiction, a process about which she could speak with complete authority. She illustrates her thesis with many examples drawn from her own books, and even illuminates the Christian heresies by analysing certain failures of creation which regularly occur in literature. This marvellous c |
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