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The Circle Dance of Time
John S. Dunne
“There is nothing wiser than the circle,” Rilke says in his Stories of God. John Dunne’s new book explores the wisdom of the circle. He uses the metaphor of the circle dance, a folk dance in which the women form an inner circle, holding hands and moving clockwise; the men form an outer circle, moving counterclockwise. When the music stops the person opposite you is your partner for the next dance. Dunne interprets the circle as the great circle of life and light and love that comes from God and returns to God.
Dunne emphasizes the far point on the…
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Anglican Church
Luke Savin Herrick Wright
This book is the first systematic historical examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s prose religious works. Coleridge (1772–1834), the son of a clergyman, “was born and died a communicating member of the Church of England.” He was a prolific writer on the subject of the relationship between church and state.
At age twenty-three, Coleridge published his first theological work, Lectures on Revealed Religion, which focused on the concept of reason facilitating virtue. Luke Wright maintains that this theme unites Coleridge’s theological writings, including the posthumous Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (1935).
Although he was an advocate of radical politics in the…
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CHOICE Announces 2009 Outstanding Academic Titles
The January 2010 issue of Choice Magazine selects two University of Notre Dame Press books in their annual Outstanding Academic Title list:
The Rise and Fall of Repression in Chile by Pablo Policzer
From the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies
Opening the Qur’an: Introducing Islam’s Holy Book by Walter H. Wagner
These outstanding works have been selected for their excellence in scholarship and presentation, the significance of their contribution to the field, and their value as important (often the first) treatment of their subject.
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