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The Victorian Ghost Story and Theology: From Le Fanu to James
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The Victorian Ghost Story and Theology: From Le Fanu to James

This book argues that theology is central to an understanding of the literary ghost story. Victorian ghost stories have traditionally been read in the context of agnosticism – as stories which reveal a society struggling with Christian orthodoxy in a new ‘Enlightened’ world. This book, however, uses theological ideas from St Augustine through to modern theologians to identify a theological journey taken by the protagonists of such stories, and charts each stage of this journey through the short stories it examines.
 
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Tags: stories, theological, journey, Victorian, ghost
Bony and the White Savage
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Bony and the White SavageBony and the White Savage

By a lonely roadside in the south-west corner of Western Australia, old-timer Karl Mueller is roused from his drink-sodden sleep by approaching footsteps and the sound of whistling. What he sees on waking (or thinks he sees) is enough to make him stiffen with fear, and more than enough to worry the police into calling for Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. The disturber of Mueller's rest is Marvin Rhudder--once an upstanding theological student, now a convicted rapist and basher, a bloody savage whose recapture will put all of Bony's sleuthing and tracking skills to the test.
 
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Tags: Mueller, enough, theological, student, convicted, White, Savage, upstanding
The Investigation
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The InvestigationThe Investigation

A young officer at Scotland Yard is assigned to investigate a puzzling and eerie case of missing-and apparently resurrected-bodies. To unravel the mystery, Lt. Gregory consults scientific, philosophical, and theological experts, who supply him with a host of theories and clues.
 
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Tags: philosophical, scientific, consults, Gregory, theological, Investigation
Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England
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Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation EnglandBeliefs and the Dead in Reformation England

This is the first comprehensive study of one of the most important aspects of the Reformation in England: its impact on the status of the dead. Protestant reformers insisted vehemently that between heaven and hell there was no 'middle place' of purgatory where the souls of the departed could be assisted by the prayers of those still living on earth. This was no remote theological proposition, but a revolutionary doctrine affecting the lives of all sixteenth-century English people, and the ways in which their Church and society were organized.

 
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Tags: England, Reformation, theological, proposition, revolutionary, Beliefs, remote
Popular Politics and the English Reformation
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Popular Politics and the English ReformationPopular Politics and the English Reformation

This study of popular responses to the English Reformation analyzes how ordinary people received, interpreted, debated, and responded to religious change. It differs from other studies by arguing that the subject cannot be understood simply by asking theological questions about people's beliefs, but must be understood by asking political questions about how they negotiated with state power. Therefore, it concerns political as well as religious history, since it asserts that, even at the popular level, political and theological processes were inseparable in the sixteenth century.
 
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Tags: political, understood, asking, theological, about, English, Reformation, Popular