Paul Cefalu
Biographic Data
| ID | 5959984 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Cefalu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Cefalu |
| SIGNATURE | CEFALU P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lafayette College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology
The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology
The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology argues that the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle of Saint John the Evangelist were so influential during the early modern period in England as to share with Pauline theology pride of place as leading apostolic texts on matters Christological, sacramental, pneumatological, and political. The book argues further that, in several instances, Johannine theology is more central th…
Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies
Acquiring Things
The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies
This collection looks at the growing rapprochement between contemporary theory and early modern English literary-cultural studies. With sections on posthumanism and cognitive science, political theolo
The Doubting Disease
Moral Identity in Early Modern English Literature
Paul Cefalu's study explores the relationship between moral character and religious conversion in the poetry and prose of Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Herbert, and Milton, as well as in early modern English Conformist and Puritan sermons, theological tracts, and philosophical treatises. Cefalu argues that early modern Protestant theologians were often unable to incorporate a coherent theory of practical morality into the order of salvation. Cefalu dra…
Godly Fear, Sanctification, and Calvinist Theology in the Sermons and "Holy Sonnets" of John Donne
I N an influential interpretation of John Donne's religious poetry, John Stachniewski suggests that doctrinal Calvinism underwrites expressions of passivity, fear, and resentment in Holy Sonnets. After tracing influence of Calvinist emphasis on total depravity, double predestination, and prevenient grace in sonnets, Stachniewski concludes that the sonnets reveal that Donne experienced tormented doubt of his salvation in a way not dissimilar to [t…
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Godly Fear, Sanctification, and Calvinist Theology in the Sermons and "Holy Sonnets" of John Donne
I N an influential interpretation of John Donne's religious poetry, John Stachniewski suggests that doctrinal Calvinism underwrites expressions of passivity, fear, and resentment in Holy Sonnets. After tracing influence of Calvinist emphasis on total depravity, double predestination, and prevenient grace in sonnets, Stachniewski concludes that the sonnets reveal that Donne experienced tormented doubt of his salvation in a way not dissimilar to [t…
Moral Identity in Early Modern English Literature
Paul Cefalu's study explores the relationship between moral character and religious conversion in the poetry and prose of Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Herbert, and Milton, as well as in early modern English Conformist and Puritan sermons, theological tracts, and philosophical treatises. Cefalu argues that early modern Protestant theologians were often unable to incorporate a coherent theory of practical morality into the order of salvation. Cefalu dra…
The Doubting Disease
The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies
This collection looks at the growing rapprochement between contemporary theory and early modern English literary-cultural studies. With sections on posthumanism and cognitive science, political theolo
Acquiring Things
Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies
The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology
The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology argues that the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle of Saint John the Evangelist were so influential during the early modern period in England as to share with Pauline theology pride of place as leading apostolic texts on matters Christological, sacramental, pneumatological, and political. The book argues further that, in several instances, Johannine theology is more central th…
The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology
Philosophy (6 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · History (4 works) · 1500-1700 (3 works) · English literature (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History and criticism (3 works) · Theology (3 works)