Christian Literature : An Anthology

, by McGrath, Alister E.

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ISBN: 9780631216063 | 0631216065
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Copyright: 11/30/2000

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This anthology of Christian literature gathers together writings drawn from 2000 years of Christian history.

Preface

How to Use This Work

xvi

The Structure of the Work

xviii

Part I The Patristic Period, ca. 100--600

Introduction

(10)

Clement of Rome (active around 96)

(4)

The First Letter to Corinth

(3)

Ignatius of Antioch (died ca. 107)

(4)

The Letter to the Romans

(4)

The Martyrdom of Polycarp (ca. 155)

(9)

Irenaeus of Lyons (ca. 130--ca. 200)

(13)

Against all Heresies

(12)

Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullian (ca. 160--ca. 225)

(9)

The Apology

(8)

Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 260--ca. 340)

(11)

Ecclesiastical History

(11)

Athanasius of Alexandria (ca. 296--373)

(12)

De Incarnatione

(5)

The Life of Antony

(6)

Ephraim the Syrian (303--373)

(6)

The Pearl

(5)

Cyril of Jerusalem (ca. 315--387)

(7)

The Catechetical Lectures

(6)

Gregory of Nyssa (ca. 330--ca. 395)

(8)

Funeral Oration on Meletius

(7)

The Peregrination of Egeria (ca. 384)

(9)

Augustine of Hippo (354--430)

105

(10)

Confessions

106

(9)

Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (ca. 530--ca. 610)

115

(11)

Vexilla Regis prodeunt

116

(5)

Part II English and Irish Sources, ca. 600--1050

Introduction

121

(5)

Caedmon's Hymn (ca. 670)

126

(2)

Bede (ca. 673--735)

128

(6)

History of the English Church and Nation

129

(4)

Bede's Death Song

133

(1)

The Deer's Cry (ca. 700)

134

(3)

The Dream of the Rood (ca. 750)

137

(5)

The Junius Codex (ca. 870)

142

(9)

Genesis B

143

(4)

Christ and Satan

147

(4)

The Exeter Book Riddles

151

(4)

Riddle 47

151

(1)

Riddle 26

152

(3)

The Blickling Homilist (ca. 970)

155

(6)

Homily for Easter Day

155

(6)

Ælfric (ca. 955--ca. 1020)

161

(6)

The Passion of St Edmund

161

(6)

Wulfstan (died 1023)

167

(14)

Lupi Sermo ad Anglos

168

(7)

Part III The Middle Ages, 1050--1500

Introduction

175

(6)

Anselm of Canterbury (1033--1109)

181

(5)

A Prayer to Christ

182

(4)

Peter Abelard (1079--1142)

186

(8)

The History of Calamities

187

(7)

Bernard of Clairvaux (1090--1153)

194

(4)

On Loving God

195

(3)

Francis of Assisi (1182--1226)

198

(3)

The Canticle of the Creatures

199

(2)

Ancrene Wisse (ca. 1230)

201

(6)

Thomas Aquinas (1224--1274)

207

(3)

Summa Theologiae

208

(2)

Hugh of Balma (ca. 1290)

210

(2)

The Roads to Zion

210

(2)

Dante Alighieri (1265--1321)

212

(6)

Inferno

214

(4)

Ludolf of Saxony (ca. 1300--1378)

218

(3)

The Life of Christ

219

(2)

The Cloud of Unknowing (ca. 1350)

221

(8)

William Langland (ca. 1332--ca. 1400)

229

(11)

Piers Plowman

230

(10)

Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1342--1400)

240

(6)

The Canterbury Tales

241

(5)

Julian of Norwich (ca. 1342--after 1416)

246

(6)

Revelations of Divine Love

247

(5)

The York Mystery Plays (ca. 1415)

252

(11)

Thomas a Kempis (1379--1471)

263

(6)

The Imitation of Christ

264

(5)

William Dunbar (ca. 1460--ca. 1520)

269

(18)

Rorate coeli desuper

270

(5)

Part IV The Renaissance and Reformation, 1500--1700

Introduction

275

(12)

Erasmus of Rotterdam (1469?--1536)

287

(12)

Moriae Encomium

289

(10)

Martin Luther (1483--1546)

299

(23)

Letter on Translating the New Testament

303

(10)

The ``Little Instruction Book'' or ``Lesser Catechism''

313

(9)

Ignatius Loyola (ca. 1491--1556)

322

(4)

The Spiritual Exercises

323

(3)

John Calvin (1509--1564)

326

(8)

Institutes of the Christian Religion

328

(6)

John Foxe (1516--1587)

334

(11)

The Acts and Monuments of Matters Happening in the Church

336

(9)

Edmund Spenser (1552--1599)

345

(11)

The Hymn of Heavenly Beauty

346

(10)

The King James Version of the Bible (1611)

356

(25)

The Translators' Preface

358

(18)

Selected Passages

376

(5)

Sir Walter Ralegh (ca. 1552--1618)

381

(3)

The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage

382

(2)

Lancelot Andrewes (1555--1626)

384

(12)

Sermon XIV

385

(11)

William Shakespeare (1564--1616)

396

(4)

Sonnet 146

398

(2)

John Donne (1571/2--1631)

400

(20)

Sermon 1

401

(15)

Divine Meditations

416

(4)

George Herbert (1593--1633)

420

(10)

The Temple

421

(6)

A Priest to the Temple

427

(3)

Sir Thomas Browne (1605--1682)

430

(6)

Religio Medici

431

(5)

John Milton (1608--1674)

436

(6)

Paradise Lost

437

(5)

Jeremy Taylor (1613--1667)

442

(6)

The Rules and Exercises of Holy Dying

443

(5)

Henry Vaughan (1622--1695)

448

(5)

The British Church

448

(2)

Religion

450

(3)

Andrew Marvell (1621--1678)

453

(6)

Bermudas

454

(2)

The Coronet

456

(3)

Blaise Pascal (1623--1662)

459

(8)

Pensees

461

(6)

John Bunyan (1626--1688)

467

(3)

The Book of Common Prayer (1662)

470

(17)

The ``General Confession''

472

(1)

The ``General Thanksgiving''

472

(1)

The Solemnization of Matrimony

473

(3)

At the Burial of the Dead

476

(5)

Part V The Modern Period, 1700--2000

Introduction

481

(6)

Daniel Defoe (1660--1731)

487

(9)

Joseph Addison (1672--1719)

496

(3)

Ode

497

(1)

Cato

498

(1)

Isaac Watts (1674--1748)

499

(2)

When I Survey The Wondrous Cross

499

(2)

Joseph Butler (1692--1752)

501

(6)

Jonathan Edwards (1703--1758)

507

(9)

Treatise Concerning Religious Affections

508

(2)

The Christian Pilgrim

510

(6)

John Wesley (1703--1791)

516

(11)

``Preface'' to Sermons On Several Occasions

517

(3)

Sermon 2: The Almost Christian

520

(7)

Charles Wesley (1707--1788)

527

(5)

Love Divine

528

(1)

Free Grace

529

(3)

John Newton (1725--1807)

532

(7)

The Olney Hymns

533

(6)

William Paley (1743--1805)

539

(7)

A View of the Evidences of Christianity

540

(6)

William Blake (1757--1827)

546

(4)

``And did those feet?'' from ``Milton''

547

(3)

William Wordsworth (1770--1850)

550

(13)

Tintern Abbey

551

(6)

Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

557

(6)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1791--1834)

563

(7)

Religious Musings

565

(2)

Confessions of an Enquiring Spirit

567

(3)

John Keble (1792--1866)

570

(10)

``National Apostasy''

571

(9)

John Henry Newman (1801--1890)

580

(5)

The Dream of Gerontius

582

(3)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803--1882)

585

(6)

Nature

586

(5)

Anthony Trollope (1815--1882)

591

(7)

Barchester Towers

593

(5)

Benjamin Jowett (1817--1893)

598

(11)

The Interpretation of Scripture

599

(10)

George Eliot (1819--1880)

609

(11)

Scenes of Clerical Life

610

(10)

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821--1881)

620

(16)

The Brothers Karamazov

621

(15)

Matthew Arnold (1822--1888)

636

(4)

Dover Beach

637

(3)

George MacDonald (1824--1905)

640

(8)

Lilith: A Romance

641

(7)

Thomas Hardy (1840--1928)

648

(8)

Jude the Obscure

649

(7)

Gerald Manley Hopkins (1844--1889)

656

(3)

God's Grandeur

657

(2)

Oscar Wilde (1854--1900)

659

(20)

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

661

(18)

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874--1936)

679

(9)

Orthodoxy

680

(4)

The Everlasting Man

684

(4)

T. S. Eliot (1888--1965)

688

(7)

The Waste Land

689

(3)

The Journey of the Magi

692

(3)

Dorothy L. Sayers (1893--1957)

695

(12)

The Man Born to be King

696

(6)

The Mind of the Maker

702

(5)

C. S. Lewis (1898--1963)

707

(11)

The Screwtape Letters

709

(4)

Till We Have Faces

713

(5)

Graham Greene (1904--1991)

718

(10)

The Power and the Glory

719

(9)

R. S. Thomas (1913--)

728

(5)

Pieta

729

(1)

Via Negativa

730

(3)

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929--1968)

733

(6)

I Have a Dream

735

(4)

David Lodge (1935--)

739

(8)

How Far Can You Go?

739

(8)

Garrison Keillor (1942--)

747

(6)

Lake Wobegon Days

748

(5)

A Glossary of Terms

753

(8)

Sources of Extracts

761

(8)

For Further Reading

769

(2)

Acknowledgments

771

(3)

Index

774

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Christian Literature : An Anthology

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials