The Theology of John Donne

List of contents

Part 1 So steepy a place: St Dunstan-in-the-West; "Faciamus hominem"; "Regula fidei"; reason and the Trinity; "Vestigia Trinitatis"; Donne and Calvin; April 1629; Whitsuntide; unity v singularity. Part 2 To batter Heaven: Lincoln's Inn Chapel; the care and piety of the Church; prescribed by Thy Son; my particular necessities; fasting and prayer; "Devotions upon Emergent Occasions". Part 3 Through his own red glasse: Whitehall Palace; "Vae Idololatris, Vae Iconoclastis"; God's wardrobe; such "Glasses" and such "Images"; Hanworth, 1622; "Visionem Dei, Unionem". Part 4 Voice of the turtle: St Paul's Cross; "Aversio and Conversio"; the churching of women; "Baptismate Lachrymarum"; gold in the washes; "Vox Turturis". Part 5 O taste and see: Donne at Heidelberg; prevenient and subsequent; the root and fruit; the dew, and breath in the ayre; "Gustate & Videte".

About the author

JEFFREY JOHNSON is Associate Professor of English at College Misericordia in Dallas, Pennsylvania.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Johnson
• Publisher: D. S. Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1999
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 15 mm x 23 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 284 g
• Series: Studies in Renaissance Literat
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies