The religious life of Samuel Johnson / Charles E. Pierce, Jr.

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Pierce, Charles E., Jr

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Athlone, 1983.Description: 1 online resource (184 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780567567291
056756729X
1281783560
9781281783561
9786611783563
6611783563

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Religious life of Samuel Johnson.DDC classification:

828/.609 22

LOC classification:

PR3537.R4 P54 1983eb

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Contents:

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Anvil of Anxiety; 2. The Crucible of Faith; 3. The Pursuit of Piety; 4. The Character of Fearing; 5. The Meaning of the Journey; 6. A Crisis of Faith; 7. The Last Great Trial; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Summary: Samuel Johnson was a deeply religious man and he came to depend on his Christian faith as the principal means by which to endure the pain of existence. He sought throughout his life to render himself worthy of salvation, but the difficulties which he ecperienced in trying to maintain a high degree of reigious discipline - as well as his doubts about God's ultimate concern for man and his fears of his own spiritual unworthiness - led him in to periods of madness and a perpetual dread of damnation. Charles Pierce examines the effect of Johnson's religious concerns upon the formation of his compl.

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Samuel Johnson was a deeply religious man and he came to depend on his Christian faith as the principal means by which to endure the pain of existence. He sought throughout his life to render himself worthy of salvation, but the difficulties which he ecperienced in trying to maintain a high degree of reigious discipline - as well as his doubts about God's ultimate concern for man and his fears of his own spiritual unworthiness - led him in to periods of madness and a perpetual dread of damnation. Charles Pierce examines the effect of Johnson's religious concerns upon the formation of his compl.

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