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Peter S. Hawkins

Autor(a) de Listening for God Volume 1

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Peter S. Hawkins is Professor of Religion and Literature at Yale Divinity School. His work has centered on Dante, but he has also written widely on the history of biblical reception and on contemporary fiction. He is the author of numerous books, including Dante's Testaments: Essays on Scriptural mostrar mais Imagination, Dante: A Brief History, and undiscovered Country: Imagining the World to Come. mostrar menos

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Obras por Peter S. Hawkins

Associated Works

Dante's Paradiso (2005) — Prefácio — 124 exemplares
Ancient Forgiveness: Classical, Judaic, and Christian (2011) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares

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It is generally true that one cannot learn less. I came close in this rather slap-dash collection of essays and essay-fragments. If anybody can indeed proft form it, mazel tov. The overall message of these Editors seems to be that Dante can be all things to all persons -- which is patently false.
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HarryMacDonald | Dec 13, 2012 |
Author and Yale University professor, Peter S. Hawkins will speak at Wednesday Night Out on February 1, 2012. It will be helpful if those attending have read Undiscovered Country. Review by Barbara Brown Taylor. Copies will be available at Trinity or to order a copy, control/click here.

"Hawkins trusts a God who is rooted in human love even when that love is predictably frail or goes pitifully awry. He is a student of what it means to be "up to love," no matter how painful the lesson, which makes him the best kind of teacher. In the end, I think, that is what drives this book: his wish to teach us that our imagination of the afterlife has power to change our lives now." --Barbara Brown Taylor, author of Leaving Church… (mais)
 
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EdwardGleason | Oct 26, 2011 |

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Obras
12
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4
Membros
779
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#32,680
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
2
ISBN
23

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