Title: Literature of Luther : receptions of the reformer /
Authors: Wesley, A. Edwards.; Edwards, J. Christopher, 1982-; Wesley, Edward,; Edwards, J. Christopher, 1982-; Conference on Christianity and Literature (U.S.). (2014 :
Publisher: Pickwick Publications,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Luther, Martin, Congresses.; Literature and society Congresses.; German literature History and criticism Congresses
Contents: 1. "A most stupid scoundrel": some early English responses to Luther / J. Patrick Hornbeck II -- 2. Reformation never ends: Jeremias Gotthelf eavesdropping on Luther in 1828 / Peter C. Meilaender -- 3. A conversation among the reformers in heaven (Gespräch der Reformatoren im Himmel, 1828) / Jeremias Gotthelf, translation by Peter C. Meilaender -- 4. Luther and Kleist: breaking new ground / Jean Wilson -- 5. Vocation, holiness and freewill in Luther and Grisez: an interconfessional exchange / R. J. Matava -- 6. Luther's linguistic innovation / Virgil Thompson -- 7. Luther, libertines, and literature / Jeffrey K. Mann -- 8. Release from torment: finding grace in Arthur Miller's 'After the fall', John Osborne's 'Luther', and C. S. Lewis's 'Till we have faces' / Elaine Lux -- 9. Luther's theology of the cross: redemptive suffering and Vivian Bearing's death in Margaret Edson's play, 'Wit' / Anthony Grasso -- 10. Never such innocence again: the persistence of hope in Cormac McCarthy's 'The road' / Stephen Sicari -- 11. Allusions to Wittenberg, the four last things, and the character of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / Brigid Brady.