dfsafa Flashcards
(13 cards)
Biblical image of furnace used to shape us
Ezekiel 22:20-22 & in Isiah.
Biblical image of sex and god
in bible (Christ’s love for church is likened to husbands for wife Ephesians 5:25, sexual love in The Song of Solomon symbolic of human soul’s desire for God)
CAREY: ‘Faith meant belief in your own salvation… psychological
psychological act by which you accepted Christ consciously as your personal savior…
“We seem to encounter an attempt to dispel religion and to retain its sanctities at the same time”
OVID “Love is
a kind of warfare
Neil King
Donne has a habit of grabbing your lapels and demanding the reader’s attention.
‘His poems addressed to God are as much about poems of love as the early verses’ ‘transmuting his sexuality into spirituality’
Carey:
perpetual worry of fidelity and falseness
John Carey
Thirty-Nine Artiles
1563
Donne profoundly aware of his ancestry
Mores
Catholic…
intestines torn out. no part in public life.
1585-1603: 153 people put to death; brutal executions
suggests ‘this sense of crisis, of living in the moment of emergency’ is because Donne was born into this terror & formed by it
Stevie
Donne on martyrdom
‘I have been ever kept awake in a meditation of Matyrdom’
Donnes decision to be an apostate
When deciding whether or not to be an apostate, Donne read his way through the whole Catholic/Protestant controversy; found excerpts from 1,400 authors at his death, most abridged and analysed with his own hand.
