Reading Hopkins after Hubble: The Durability of Ignatian Creation Spirituality

Horizons ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-295
Author(s):  
M. Dennis Hamm
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Model ◽  
Personal Relationship ◽  
Gerard Manley Hopkins ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Creation Spirituality ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ignatius Of Loyola

The Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins already demonstrated a special sensitivity to nature as a young Anglican. But his conversion to Catholicism, followed by his formation as a Jesuit, nurtured a creation spirituality that moved him from the rather cold view of the cosmos typical of his Victorian era to a vibrant sense of God intimately revealed in nature. This new sense of being a creature involved in an intimate personal relationship with the Creator comes from Hopkins' appropriation of the creation spirituality of Ignatius of Loyola. After reviewing the evolution of worldviews from the medieval synthesis melded with the Newtonian mechanical model (the Victorian picture) to our contemporary cosmic “story,” this article then samples poems that illustrate the creation spirituality that Hopkins absorbed from Ignatius' vision. This vision is remarkably in tune with the new sense of the place of the human creature in the cosmic story that the sciences now tell regarding the emergence of matter, life, and persons.

The Johnson-Chesterfield Relationship: A New Hypothesis

PMLA ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Korshin
Keyword(s):  
Personal Relationship ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Political Relationship ◽  
The Creation ◽  
New Hypothesis ◽  
Relationship Centered

To understand the ironic force of Johnson's 1755 letter to the Earl of Chesterfield, we must appreciate not only their personal relationship, centered in 1746-48, and Chesterfield's indirect attempt to sponsor the Dictionary in 1754, but their literary and political relationship as well. Both men played a complex role in the politics of the 1737-44 period, Chesterfield as a leading member of the opposition, Johnson as political journalist. During these years, Johnson used Chesterfield's 1737 speech against the Playhouse Bill as basis for some arguments in his Compleat Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage (1739), and later wrote Chesterfield's part in a number of “Parliamentary Debates.” Though Johnson favored the opposition position before 1740, in his “Debates,” under the requirement of appearing impartial, he often created for opposition speakers, especially Chesterfield, ironic arguments which redound to their discredit. Johnson's ability as ironist was considerable: comparison of the speeches he wrote for Chesterfield with collateral sources for these debates reveals that he intensified Chesterfield's opposition negativeness by increasing his ironical attacks upon the ministry in power. The effect is to satirize Chesterfield, rendering him ineffectual, divisive, and ridiculous through the creation of a literary and political persona. It is unlikely that Johnson forgot this persona during his hopeful personal relationship with and later neglect by Chesterfield. When the opportunity arose in 1755 for Johnson to address Chesterfield personally again, he fortified the “civil irony” of his celebrated letter with an ironic attack which recalls, and was perhaps influenced by, the satiric criticism he had leveled against Chesterfield through similar ironic techniques a dozen years earlier in the “Parliamentary Debates.”

scholarly journals The presentation of madness in the Victorian novel

1988 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 411-414
Author(s):  
Allan Beveridge ◽  
Edward Renvoize
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
General Public ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Victorian Novel ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Large Readership ◽  
The 19Th Century

The major novelists of the Victorian era enjoyed a large readership amongst the general public. They dealt with the pressing social issues of the day and their work both reflected and shaped society's attitudes to contemporary problems. The 19th century saw fundamental changes in society's response to the mentally ill with the creation of purpose-built asylums throughout the country. The Victorians were ambivalent in their reaction to the mentally disturbed. Whilst they sought to segregate the insane from the rest of the population, they were also terrified by the prospect of the wrongful confinement of sane people. The trial of Daniel McNaughton in 1843 for the assassination of Sir Robert Peel's Private Secretary, and the subsequent legislation, provoked general public debate about the nature of madness.

scholarly journals Thin Edge of Barbwire: Pedagogical Strategies Against Borders

2018 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 118-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heath Schultz
Keyword(s):  
White Supremacy ◽  
Personal Relationship ◽  
Art Students ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
Collaborative Art ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Successes And Failures

“Thin Edge of Barbwire,” a reference to Gloria Anzaldúa’s poetry, doubles as the title of this paper and a collaborative art project undertaken by university art students resulting in the creation of a 30’ wall. This project was, in effect, a response to the Trump presidency and students’ fear of increased violence on the border. This paper describes in detail the month-long unit that included readings, dialog, and creative responses to recent histories of the border and students’ personal relationship to violence on the border. I use the project as a case study to consider antiracist pedagogies, confronting white-supremacy in the classroom, and successes and failures of the project. Finally, I reflect broadly on the role of creative and artistic response to political crises. 

Birth of an Idea

2019 ◽  
pp. 81-104
Author(s):  
Edoardo Campanella ◽  
Marta Dassù
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Asian Economies ◽  
Common Purpose ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Political Project ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
American State

Brexiteers’ historical and nostalgic elucubrations coincide with a concrete, albeit utopian, political project: that of Global Britain. Bringing this to fruition entails rekindling old friendships in the Commonwealth, rediscovering the special relationship with America, and intensifying links with Asian economies. This chapter shows how the debate concerning Great Britain’s global role is nothing more than the culmination of an intellectual dispute that has lasted for more than 150 years—since the late Victorian era when the British Empire’s global pre-eminence was slipping as a result of combined internal and external fractures. It all started in 1873 at the Oxford Union, with a debate on how to reorganize and modernize Pax Britannica. Since then, plans have differed in detail, but they have all sought to unite the Anglosphere behind a common purpose. Some have called for the creation of a British imperial federation or a multi-national commonwealth, while others would have liked to see a more formalized Atlantic Union, or even a new Anglo-American state. Hardcore Brexiteers simply continued this project. All the institutional arrangements proposed over the years were intrinsically nostalgic and utopian. They attempted to creatively preserve a past that was falling apart by promoting Britain’s political and economic interests to the detriment of increasingly more assertive colonies. Unsurprisingly, none of these proposals has ever amounted to anything. Nostalgia, which tends to oversimplify reality, hardly makes for enlightened politics and effective policies.

The Creation of the Self in Gerard Manley Hopkins

ELH ◽  
1955 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 293 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Hillis Miller
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Gerard Manley Hopkins ◽  
The Creation

scholarly journals JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU: METAMORPHOSES AND INNOVATIONS IN GOTHIC FICTION

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 182-187
Author(s):  
Jelena Brakovska
Keyword(s):  
Literary Study ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Gothic Fiction ◽  
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu ◽  
The Creation

Notwithstanding the fact that the Anglo-Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was one of the most popular writers of the British Victorian era, his name and most of his works are not well-known to a common reader. The present research investigates how the author inventively modifies traditional Gothic elements and penetrates them into human’s consciousness. Such Le Fanu’s metamorphoses and innovations make the artistic world of his prose more realistic and psychological. As a result, the article presents a comparative literary study of Le Fanu’s text manipulations which seem to lead to the creation of Le Fanu’s own kind of “psychological” Gothic.

scholarly journals Editorial: Current Challenges of Ignatian Pedagogy

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (56) ◽  
pp. 7-8
Author(s):  
Jarosław Charchuła
Keyword(s):  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
Ignatian Pedagogy ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ignatius Of Loyola ◽  
Starting Date ◽  
New Spirituality

The Jubilee Ignatian Year began on 20 May 2021 and it will last until 31 July 2022. In the jubilee year of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) celebrates the 500th anniversary of the conversion of St. Ignatius Loyola and the 400th anniversary of his canonization. The starting date of the jubilee is related to the anniversary of the event that took place in Pamplona on 20 May 1521, when a cannonball injured Ignatius during a battle. It altered the course of his life, marking the beginning of his conversion, and leading to the founding of the Society of Jesus. The date of the end of the jubilee coincides with the liturgical commemoration of St. Ignatius of Loyola, that commemorates the day of his death. The conversion of Ignatius was associated primarily with a change in his lifestyle. Once a vain nobleman focused on world success, he has turned into an ascetic and inner-motivated man. Under the influence of these experiences, Ignatius and his Companions founded an order and initiated the creation of a “new” spirituality.

scholarly journals Creating Relationships with the Self and Others by Choosing a Healthy Lifestyle

Pedagogika ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 135 (3) ◽  
pp. 30-51
Author(s):  
Saulius Vaivada ◽  
Vilma Žydžiūnaitė
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Research Question ◽  
The Self ◽  
Personal Relationship ◽  
Personal Change ◽  
Component Content ◽  
The Creation

The article answers the research question „What kind of multi-component content emerges when the person is creating a constructive relationship with the self and others when s/he chooses a healthy lifestyle?“ through qualitative empirical study. Findings led to the conclusion that results of the creation of a personal relationship by choosing a healthy lifestyle are the transformations of the personality and quality of life, which are conditioned by personal change in the person’s becoming and the promotion of inner motivation.

The beauty of Victorian beasts: illustration in the Reverend J. G. Wood's Homes without hands (W. T. Stearn Prize 2012)

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
The Public ◽  
Scientific Representations ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
The Creation ◽  
History Book

The Reverend John George Wood (1827–1889) was a successful popularizer of natural history in the Victorian era. His Illustrated natural history (1853) and Common objects series (1857–1858) have been written about extensively. However, historians have largely ignored his most successful book, Homes without hands, in spite of its exquisite designs and profound connections with natural domesticity. In addition, little research has been conducted on the illustrations that appear across Wood's publications, despite their great popularity during his lifetime. This article examines the creation, popularization and methods of communication of this beautiful natural history book. A work explicitly about animal dwellings, Homes without hands was exceedingly popular during its time, as will be shown through an analysis of previously unpublished impression and sales records from the Longman's publishing archive at Reading University. Furthermore, this article will reveal Wood's use of advanced methods in printing and engraving technologies, which made Homes without hands more accessible to the public, particularly through the use of electrotype. In addition, Wood adapted his illustrations for the sake of uniting pleasing aesthetics with scientific representations. Wood's proactive involvement in the illustrative processes of the book ensured that his vision was fully enacted in the final designs. There were elements of danger and domesticity present throughout Wood's work, which functioned as a method for enticing readership and communicating social and religious messages. This will be revealed through a close analysis of a few specific illustrations. Wood dynamically united illustration and text to create a useful domestic piece of natural history, for and about the home. This article seeks to combine methods of examination of both natural history illustration and literature through the investigation of a single book, to better communicate how works of Victorian natural history functioned as a whole.

Gerard Manley Hopkins and John Duns Scotus

1988 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-364
Author(s):  
Hywel Thomas
Keyword(s):  
John Duns Scotus ◽  
Gerard Manley Hopkins ◽  
Eternal Truth ◽  
Duns Scotus ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Invisible

The lord whose is the oracle at Delphoi neither utters nor conceals his meaning, but reveals it with a sign.(Heracleitos fragment)In the eternal truth from which all temporal things are made, we behold the form … and we have within us like a word the knowledge of what we have conceived.(St augustine, De Trin.)For the invisible things of Him, since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood through the things that are made.(St Paul, Romans i, 20)

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