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| baptism scenes in literature: A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature David Lyle Jeffrey, 1992 Over 15 years in the making, an unprecedented one-volume reference work. Many of today's students and teachers of literature, lacking a familiarity with the Bible, are largely ignorant of how Biblical tradition has influenced and infused English literature through the centuries. An invaluable research tool. Contains nearly 800 encyclopedic articles written by a distinguished international roster of 190 contributors. Three detailed annotated bibliographies. Cross-references throughout. |
| baptism scenes in literature: How to Read Literature Like a Professor 3E Thomas C. Foster, 2024-11-05 Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest—a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of writing and literary devices that enrich these works, including symbols, themes, and contexts—teaches you how to make your everyday reading experience richer and more rewarding. While books can be enjoyed for their basic stories, there are often deeper literary meanings beneath the surface. How to Read Literature Like a Professor helps us to discover those hidden truths by looking at literature with the practiced analytical eye—and the literary codes—of a college professor. What does it mean when a protagonist is traveling along a dusty road? When he hands a drink to his companion? When he’s drenched in a sudden rain shower? Thomas C. Foster provides answers to these questions as he explores every aspect of fiction, from major themes to literary models, narrative devices, and form. Offering a broad overview of literature—a world where a road leads to a quest, a shared meal may signify a communion, and rain, whether cleansing or destructive, is never just a shower—he shows us how to make our reading experience more intellectually satisfying and fun. The world, and curricula, have changed. This third edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect those changes, and features new chapters, a new preface and epilogue, as well as fresh teaching points Foster has developed over the past decade. Foster updates the books he discusses to include more diverse, inclusive, and modern works, such as Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give; Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven; Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere; Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X; Helen Oyeyemi's Mr. Fox and Boy, Snow, Bird; Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street; Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God; Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet; Madeline Miller’s Circe; Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls; and Tahereh Mafi’s A Very Large Expanse of Sea. |
| baptism scenes in literature: Baptism David F. Wright, 2009-11-16 In Baptism: Three Views, editor David F. Wright has provided a forum for thoughtful proponents of three principal evangelical views on baptism to state their case, respond to the others, and then provide a summary response and statement. Sinclair Ferguson sets out the case for infant baptism, Bruce Ware presents the case for believers' baptism, and Anthony Lane argues for a mixed practice. |
| baptism scenes in literature: Virginal Sexuality and Textuality in Victorian Literature Lloyd Davis, 1993-01-01 This book examines the figure of the virgin, a symbol central to many aspects of society and sexuality in nineteenth-century England, and its effects on the Victorian literary imagination. Studying the virgin as a social, sexual, and literary phenomenon, the volume contributes to current critical accounts of the relations among the body and language, gender, and discourse. These essays explore the ways in which virginity is not a natural ideal but a complex cultural and literary sign. The authors rethink the virginal as a textual counter-example to the idealization of natural sexuality. |
| baptism scenes in literature: Literature, Film, and Their Hideous Progeny Julie Grossman, 2015-09-01 This book posits adaptations as 'hideous progeny,' Mary Shelley's term for her novel, Frankenstein . Like Shelley's novel and her fictional Creature, adaptations that may first be seen as monstrous in fact compel us to shift our perspective on known literary or film works and the cultures that gave rise to them. |
| baptism scenes in literature: Greek Literature in the Roman Period and in Late Antiquity Gregory Nagy, 2014-01-14 Edited with an introduction by an internationally recognized scholar, this nine-volume set represents the most exhaustive collection of essential critical writings in the field, from studies of the classic works to the history of their reception. Bringing together the articles that have shaped modern classical studies, the set covers Greek literature in all its genres--including history, poetry, prose, oratory, and philosophy--from the 6th century BC through the Byzantine era. Since the study of Greek literature encompasses the roots of all major modern humanities disciplines, the collection also includes seminal articles exploring the Greek influence on their development. Each volume concludes with a list of recommendations for further reading. This collection is an important resource for students and scholars of comparative literature, English, history, philosophy, theater, and rhetoric as well as the classics. |
| baptism scenes in literature: Ritual, Emotion, and Materiality in the Early Christian World Soham Al-Suadi, Richard S. Ascough, Richard E. DeMaris, 2021-12-30 This volume advances our understanding of early Christianity as a lived religion by approaching it through its rites, the emotions and affects surrounding those rites, and the material setting for the practice of them. The connections between emotions and ritual, between rites and their materiality, and between emotions and their physical manifestation in ancient Mediterranean culture have been inadequately explored as yet, especially with regard to early Christianity and its water and dining rites. Readers will find all three areas—ritual, emotion, and materiality—engaged in this exemplary interdisciplinary study, which provides fresh insights into early Christianity and its world. Ritual, Emotion, and Materiality in the Early Christian World will be of special interest to interdisciplinary-minded researchers, seminarians, and students who are attentive to theory and method, and those with an interest in the New Testament and earliest Christianity. It will also appeal to those working on ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman religion, emotion, and ritual from a comparative standpoint. |
| baptism scenes in literature: Reference Catalogue of Current Literature , 1928 |
| baptism scenes in literature: "It is the Spirit that Gives Life" Gitte Buch-Hansen, 2010 Since Origen and Chrysostom, John's Gospel has been valued as the most spiritual among the New Testament writings. Although Origen recognizes the Stoic character of John's statement that God is pneuma (4:24), an examination of the gospel in light of Stoic physics has not yet been carried out. Combining her insight into Stoic physics and ancient physiology, the author situates her thesis in the major discussions of modern Johannine scholarship- e.g. the role of the Baptist and the function of the Johannine signs- and demonstrates new solutions to well-known problems. The Stoic study of the Fourth Gospel reveals a coherent narrative tied together by the spirit. The problem with which John's Gospel wrestles is not the identity of Jesus, but the transition from the Son of God to the next generation of divinely begotten children: how did it come about? A reading carried out from a Stoic perspective points to the translation of the risen body of Jesus into spirit as the decisive event. The provision of the spirit is a precondition of the divine generation of believers. Both events are explained by Stoic theory which allows of a transformation of fleshly elements into pneuma and of multiple fatherhood. In fact, in his Commentary on John, Origen described Jesus' ascension as an event of anastoixei sis, which is the Stoic term for the transformation of heavily elements into lighter and pneumatic ones. |
| baptism scenes in literature: Baptism in the Early Church Everett Ferguson, 2009-03-23 A comprehensive survey of the doctrine and practice of baptism in the first five centuries of Christian history, arranged geographically within chronological periods. |
| baptism scenes in literature: Baptist Missionary Magazine , 1906 |
| baptism scenes in literature: The Baptist Missionary Magazine , 1907 |
| baptism scenes in literature: Understanding Early Christian Art Robin M. Jensen, 2013-04-15 Understanding Early Christian Art is designed for students of both religion and of art history. It makes the critical tools of art historians accessible to students of religion, to help them understand better the visual representations of Christianity. It will also aid art historians in comprehending the complex theology, history and context of Christian art. This interdisciplinary and boundary-breaking approach will enable students in several fields to further their understanding and knowledge of the art of the early Christian era. Understanding Early Christian Art contains over fifty images with parallel text. |
| baptism scenes in literature: How to Read Literature Like a Professor Thomas C. Foster, 2017-05-16 The classic guide, now available in a hardcover edition—a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes and contexts, that shows you how to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and enjoyable. While many books can be enjoyed for their basic stories, there are often deeper literary meanings interwoven in these texts. How to Read Literature Like a Professor helps us to discover those hidden truths by looking at literature with the eyes—and the literary codesof the ultimate professional reader, the college professor. What does it mean when a literary hero is traveling along a dusty road? When he hands a drink to his companion? When he's drenched in a sudden rain shower? Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices and form, Thomas C. Foster provides us with a broad overview of literature—a world where a road leads to a quest, a shared meal may signify a communion, and rain, whether cleansing or destructive, is never just a shower—and shows us how to make our reading experience more enriching, satisfying, and fun. This revised edition includes new chapters, a new preface and epilogue, and incorporates updated teaching points that Foster has developed over the past decade. |
| baptism scenes in literature: American Baptist Missionary Magazine and Missionary Intelligencer , 1905 Volumes 7-77, 80-83 include 13th-83rd, 86th-89th annual report of the American Baptist missionary union. |
| baptism scenes in literature: Ablution, Initiation, and Baptism David Hellholm, Tor Vegge, Øyvind Norderval, Christer Hellholm, 2011-07-27 In the web of cultural processes of late antiquity ablution rites and initiation rites were performed in different forms and in different contexts. Such rites existed in Early Judaism and Greco-Roman cults and were also applied in early Christianity under the label “baptism”, however, not as one fixed rite uniformly performed and interpreted. Baptismal rites developed diversely corresponding to the diversity among Christian groups of which some later came to be perceived as heretical. Remains of art, architecture and texts from these contexts were discussed in two conferences gathering scholars who are excellent within their respective fields: text studies, studies of rites, archaeology, architecture, history of art, and cultural anthropology. These different fields of research have in recent years generated new knowledge that is relevant for the discussion of ablution and initiation rites and their function in late antiquity. At the same time interests of research have altered in favour of a growing cooperation across discipline borders. The present volumes are the outcome of two conferences in Rome 2008 and at Metochi (Lesbos) 2009. |
| baptism scenes in literature: Ablution, Initiation, and Baptism: Methodological considerations , 2011 The present volumes is the result of an international collaboration of researchers who are excellent within their respective fields: interpretation of texts, studies of rites, archaeology, architecture, history of art, and cultural anthropology. They met for two conferences to discuss the significance of rites of ablution, initiation, and baptism and their interpretation in Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity. The volume establishes a new international standard of research within these fields of scholarship. |
| baptism scenes in literature: A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines Sir William Smith, 1887 |
| baptism scenes in literature: A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines: Naamanes-Zuntfredus William Smith, Henry Wace, 1887 |
| baptism scenes in literature: The Gospel of John as Literature Stibbe, 2019-07-01 This volume contains thirteen essays written between 1900 and today. Each of them takes as its starting point the Gospel of John as a literary unity. The volume as a whole traces literary studies of John back to the early 1900's and charts their development from then. Some of these essays are little known even to Johannine scholars. Others are recognized as classics in the field. Two of them are translations. This book is therefore a timely and indispensable resource for those interested in the history of the fourth gospel interpretation, and in examples of literary methods applied to John. |
| baptism scenes in literature: The Gospel of John As Literature Mark W. G. Stibbe, 1993 This volume contains essays written during the 20th century which have treated the Gospel of John as a literary unity. It is the only volume which puts the present literary approaches to John into historical perspective. A complete bibliography of literary studies of the fourth gospel is included, as well as an introduction by Mark W.G. Stibbe. |
| baptism scenes in literature: A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased Samuel Austin Allibone, 1896 |
| baptism scenes in literature: Spiritual Vegetation Guita Lamsechi, Beatrice Trînca, 2022-04-11 This volume concerns premodern understandings of vegetal nature that encompass multiple semantics and perspectives. Scholars from the disparate fields of art history, literature, and religious studies present tantalizing studies of trees and plants in sacred and secular thought. Some discuss the concept of the Book of Nature and its implications. Others explore narratives of symbiosis between humans and vegetal material, tree-dwelling hermits, spirits metamorphosing into wood, flowers or trees that sprout from bodies or the dissolution of the self into the natural world. Complementary to these approaches are studies that suggest a collapsing of time and space in spiritually charged yet ambiguous natural motifs or topographies where forests or groves are spaces of transformative experience. |
| baptism scenes in literature: Norton's Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular , 1851 |
| baptism scenes in literature: A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors John Foster Kirk, 1897 |
| baptism scenes in literature: A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century Samuel Austin Allibone, 1892 |
| baptism scenes in literature: Sacramental Theology and the Decoration of Baptismal Fonts Frances Altvater, 2017-06-23 Baptismal fonts were necessary to the liturgical life of the medieval Christian. Baptism marked the entrance of the faithful into the right relation, with the Catholic Church representing the main cultural institution of medieval society. In the period between ca. 1050 and ca. 1220, the decoration of the font often had an important function: to underscore the theology of baptism in the context of the sacraments of the Catholic Church. This period witnessed a surge of concern about sacraments. Just as religious thinkers attempted to delineate the sacraments and define their function in sermons and Sentence collections, sculptural programs visualized the teaching of orthodox ideas for the lay audience. This book looks at three areas of primary concern around baptism as a sacrament – incarnation, initiation, and the practice of baptism within the institution of the Church – and the images that embody that religious discussion. Baptismal fonts have been recognized as part of the stylistic production of the Romanesque period, and their iconography has been generally explored as moral and didactic. Here, the message of these fonts is set within a very specific history of medieval Catholic sacramental theology, connecting erudite thinkers and lay users through their decoration and use. |
| baptism scenes in literature: Elsewhere Gabrielle Zevin, 2006-01-01 Presents a novel of hope, love, and redemption. |
| baptism scenes in literature: The Works of Warfield B.B. Warfield, 2022-04-26 B. B. Warfield ranks among America’s greatest theologians and Reformed theology’s most ardent defenders. As a prolific writer and accomplished scholar, Warfield defended Reformed confessionalism against the extremes of nineteenth century modernist and revivalist theology, and defined the parameters of theological method for the twentieth century. The 10-volume B. B. Warfield Collection includes Warfield’s works on biblical inspiration and authority, textual criticism, Calvinism, biblical theology, and Christian perfectionism. The B. B. Warfield Collection from Christian Classics Reproductions includes the entire 10-volume Works of Benjamin B. Warfield, published in the decade following Warfield’s death in 1921, plus ten additional volumes which contain books, articles, and lectures not found in the original ten volumes. The entire 10-volume B. B. Warfield Collection is fully searchable and easily accessible. The Scripture references in Warfield’s books are there to check in your favorite Bible translations and Greek texts, and important theological concepts are linked to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and the wealth of resources at your fingertips. |
| baptism scenes in literature: Baptism in Its Mode and Subjects Rev. Alexander Carson, 1857 |
| baptism scenes in literature: A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines Being a Continuation of the Dictionary of the Bible Smith, 1887 |
| baptism scenes in literature: The Visual World of the Hungarian Angevin Legendary Béla Zsolt Szakács, 2016-05-15 Dispersed in two continents, four countries and six collections; many of its pages were cropped, cut into four, or lost forever; its history, origin, commissioner and audience are obscure; still, in its fragmented state it presents fifty-eight legends in abundant series of images, on folios fully covered by miniatures, richly gilded, using only one side of the fine parchment; a luxurious codex worthy of a ruler; a unique iconographic treasury of medieval legends; one of the most significant manuscripts of the medieval Hungarian Kingdom – these are all what we call the Hungarian Angevin Legendary. |
| baptism scenes in literature: The Library of Biblical Literature , 1855 |
| baptism scenes in literature: The British and Foreign Evangelical Review and Quarterly Record of Christian Literature , 1875 |
| baptism scenes in literature: The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 6, 1830–1914 David McKitterick, 2009-03-05 The years 1830–1914 witnessed a revolution in the manufacture and use of books as great as that in the fifteenth century. Using new technology in printing, paper-making and binding, publishers worked with authors and illustrators to meet ever-growing and more varied demands from a population seeking books at all price levels. The essays by leading book historians in this volume show how books became cheap, how publishers used the magazine and newspaper markets to extend their influence, and how book ownership became universal for the first time. The fullest account ever published of the nineteenth-century revolution in printing, publishing and bookselling, this volume brings The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain up to a point when the world of books took on a recognisably modern form. |
| baptism scenes in literature: Dublin University Magazine,A Literary and Political Journal VOL.LXX July to December,1867 Dublin University Magazine,A Literary and Political Journal, 1867 |
| baptism scenes in literature: Recognizing the Stranger Kasper Bro Larsen, 2008-04-30 Recognizing the Stranger is the first monographic study of recognition scenes and motifs in the Gospel of John. The recognition type-scene (anagnōrisis) was a common feature in ancient drama and narrative, highly valued by Aristotle as a touching moment of truth, e.g., in Oedipus’ tragic self-discovery and Odysseus’ happy homecoming. The book offers a reconstruction of the conventions of the genre and argues that it is one of the most recurrent and significant literary forms in the Gospel. When portraying Jesus as the divine stranger from heaven, the Gospel employs and transforms the formal and ideological structures of the type-scene in order to show how Jesus’ true identity can be recognized behind the half-mask of his human appearance. |
| baptism scenes in literature: “A” Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century S. Austin Allibone, 1891 |
| baptism scenes in literature: Dwight's Journal of Music, A Paper of Art and Literature John S. Dwight, 2024-01-30 Reprint of the original, first published in 1875. |
| baptism scenes in literature: The Bible Baptist, No. I, Or, What Does the Bible Say on the Mode of Baptism? Thomas Poage Hunt, 1857 |
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Baptism (from Koinē Greek: βάπτισμα, romanized: váptisma, lit. 'immersion, dipping in water') [1] is a Christian sacrament of initiation almost invariably with the use of water.
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Dec 16, 2024 · Baptism represents a statement of declariing ourselves new in Christ, just as Jesus was resurrected and brought back to life. When we enter the waters of baptism, we’re …
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Nov 20, 2017 · Baptism is the outward act that symbolizes the inward phenomenon of coming to and accepting Jesus Christ as real, as God incarnate, as the sacrificial means by which those …
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Water Baptism is an act of obedience for the believer. It should be preceded by repentance, which simply means “change.” That change is the turning from our sin and selfishness to serve the …
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May 8, 2025 · Christian baptism is the means by which a person makes a public profession of faith and discipleship. In the waters of baptism, a person says, wordlessly, “I confess faith in …
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Topical Bible: Baptism
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Jan 6, 2025 · Baptism is a profound and multifaceted Christian ritual, symbolizing cleansing, initiation, and grace. Across national boundaries and denominational lines, baptism remains a …
Baptism - Wikipedia
Baptism (from Koinē Greek: βάπτισμα, romanized: váptisma, lit. 'immersion, dipping in water') [1] is a Christian sacrament of initiation almost invariably with the use of water.
Baptism: Meaning, Purpose, and Importance Explained
Dec 16, 2024 · Baptism represents a statement of declariing ourselves new in Christ, just as Jesus was resurrected and brought back to life. When we enter the waters of baptism, we’re …
Baptism | Meaning, Rituals & History | Britannica
May 17, 2025 · baptism, a sacrament of admission to Christianity. The forms and rituals of the various Christian churches vary, but baptism almost invariably involves the use of water and …
Baptism: What is It? Meaning and Definition - Crosswalk
Nov 20, 2017 · Baptism is the outward act that symbolizes the inward phenomenon of coming to and accepting Jesus Christ as real, as God incarnate, as the sacrificial means by which those …
What Is the Purpose of Baptism in the Christian Life?
Water Baptism is an act of obedience for the believer. It should be preceded by repentance, which simply means “change.” That change is the turning from our sin and selfishness to serve the …
What is the importance of Christian baptism? - GotQuestions.org
May 8, 2025 · Christian baptism is the means by which a person makes a public profession of faith and discipleship. In the waters of baptism, a person says, wordlessly, “I confess faith in …
7 Reasons Why Baptism Is Important - Bible Gateway Blog
Aug 23, 2022 · A person’s baptism is a proclamation that her sins are washed away by the blood of Christ and that she is now united with Christ by the Holy Spirit in the newness of Christ’s …
What Is Baptism? What It Means and Why It Matters
4 days ago · At its essence, baptism signifies a believer’s connection to Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. It’s a visible manifestation of an invisible grace, marking a person’s entry into the …
Topical Bible: Baptism
Baptism is a Christian sacrament and ordinance that signifies the believer's faith in Jesus Christ, symbolizing purification and regeneration. The term "baptism" is derived from the Greek word …
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Jan 6, 2025 · Baptism is a profound and multifaceted Christian ritual, symbolizing cleansing, initiation, and grace. Across national boundaries and denominational lines, baptism remains a …
