Patrick Timmis
Biographic Data
| ID | 6640361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Timmis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Timmis |
| SIGNATURE | TIMMIS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hillsdale College |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-1189-1928 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“The Human Race Is to Become all Technocracy”
This article argues that C.S. Lewis offers a grammar for thinking the spiritual stakes of technics. Reading The Abolition of Man alongside That Hideous Strength , the authors propose that Lewis reframes technicity's peril not merely as “demonic” autonomy but, at its limit, as a Satanic revolt against the Tao, an inversion that clarifies why power severed from objective value becomes magic in the pejorative sense. Attending to the novel's polarity…
John Donne in the Hague and the Hague at the Globe
This essay argues that the British delegation's distinctive approach to the Reformed doctrine of perseverance at the Synod of Dort provides necessary context for two international sermons delivered by John Donne in 1619. Donne's rhetoric in these sermons, in turn, is echoed by a striking dramatization of international “current events” performed in the same year by the King's Men at the Globe Theatre. Reading John Donne's sermons at Heidelberg and…
Undermining the Elect Nation
This article examines King Lear’s creative redeployment of the Old Testament stories of the patriarchs, especially the narrative of Jacob and Esau in the book of Genesis. After contextualizing the reliance of the “Gloucester subplot” on this narrative within a broader predestinarian tradition of representing the English monarchy as the fulfillment of Hebrew typology, the article asks how a courtly audience, amid the political upheavals of 1606, m…
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Undermining the Elect Nation
This article examines King Lear’s creative redeployment of the Old Testament stories of the patriarchs, especially the narrative of Jacob and Esau in the book of Genesis. After contextualizing the reliance of the “Gloucester subplot” on this narrative within a broader predestinarian tradition of representing the English monarchy as the fulfillment of Hebrew typology, the article asks how a courtly audience, amid the political upheavals of 1606, m…
John Donne in the Hague and the Hague at the Globe
This essay argues that the British delegation's distinctive approach to the Reformed doctrine of perseverance at the Synod of Dort provides necessary context for two international sermons delivered by John Donne in 1619. Donne's rhetoric in these sermons, in turn, is echoed by a striking dramatization of international “current events” performed in the same year by the King's Men at the Globe Theatre. Reading John Donne's sermons at Heidelberg and…
“The Human Race Is to Become all Technocracy”
This article argues that C.S. Lewis offers a grammar for thinking the spiritual stakes of technics. Reading The Abolition of Man alongside That Hideous Strength , the authors propose that Lewis reframes technicity's peril not merely as “demonic” autonomy but, at its limit, as a Satanic revolt against the Tao, an inversion that clarifies why power severed from objective value becomes magic in the pejorative sense. Attending to the novel's polarity…
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