The Theology of John Donne (Studies..., Johnson, Jeffre

The Nile on eBay\n\n  FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE\n\n \n\nThe Theology of John Donne\nby\nJeffrey Johnson\n\nJohn Donne discussed as an original religious thinker, drawing on his extant sermons for evidence of his personal theology.\n\nFORMAT\nPaperback\nLANGUAGE\nEnglish\nCONDITION\nBrand New\n\nPublisher Description\nJohn Donne is here treated as an original religious thinker; the evidence for the distinguishing features of his theology is drawn primarily from his extant sermons studied in context, beginning with an exploration of what is for Donne the fundamental belief for regulating Christian faith and practice, the doctrine of the Trinity. Building on this theological groundwork, Johnson goes on to examine such topics as Donne's understanding of common prayer; the pre-eminence of sight and spectacle, in terms of religious self-fashioning and the iconoclastic controversy; the doctrine of repentance, in conjunction with Donne's own sense of clerical calling; and the doctrine ;