Modernism and Faith in the Poems of Jenő Dsida

Writing Poetry after the End of the World

Tadeusz Różewicz perceived World War II as an apocalyptic catastrophe that brought about the death of poetry. He acknowledged that existing means of expression were powerless in the face of the extermination of Jews, and that this inadequacy evidenced the exhaustion of earlier poetic forms. Różewicz felt compelled to...

Language Sense and Hybridity in Gemino H. Abad's Postcolonial Poetics

One common critique of earlier Filipino poetics is that they make much ado about nativist humanism and essentialism, sometimes characterised as reductive and marginalising. This article argues that Gemino H. Abad, a significant figure in Filipino poetry and Philippine literature, ushers in postcolonial principles thr...

The Pride of Humanity and the Humility of God: Original Sin in Augustine’s De Trinitate

This article argues that De Trinitate’s often neglected soteriological arc contains resources for a constructive and pastorally fruitful retrieval of Augustine’s theology of original sin. While De Trinitate presupposes the historical, causal, and hereditary dimensions of original sin elaborated in Augustine’s anti-Pela...

The National in the Triptych of Religion, Race and Caste: Kaye, Phule and Savarkar

This article contends that religion remained central to understanding ‘nationalism’ in Britain and India in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This proposition will be demonstrated in concrete form through reading, and cross - reading, three interpretations of the Revolt of 1857: John Kaye’s A History of...

I Live Now in an Old Book: Hebrew Poetry after October 7

The Fundamentalist-Modernist Conflict of the 1920s in the Augustana Synod—and Beyond

The Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, known more often as the Augustana Synod, was the only enduring Swedish American Lutheran denomination in American history. Despite its institutional unity, the denomination experienced internal struggles, exemplified by the conflict in the 1920s between so-called "Fundamentali...