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On November 16, 2001, Franklin Graham, leader of one of the largest conservative Christian organi... more On November 16, 2001, Franklin Graham, leader of one of the largest conservative Christian organizations in the nation, appeared on NBC Nightly News, expounding his views on God and Islam: “He’s [Allah] is not the son of God of the Christian or Judeo-Christian faith. It’s a different God, and I believe it [Islam] is a very evil and wicked religion” (para. 2). For the past 30 years, evangelical Christianity has grown in both religious and political power. For James M. Dunn, former Executive Director of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, this coalition is the “strongest alliance of religion with power since the Puritans” (qtd. in Cohen xi). Through this alliance, Evangelicals have transformed into a political force whose goal is to establish the “Kingdom of God” on earth. This godly kingdom will supplant the rampant secularism that Evangelicals feel has devastated the morality of the United States and precipitated the rapid decline of American influence abroad. The enemy o...
Although Terence Brown claims, “Ireland in the 1930s was not significantly attentive to modernism... more Although Terence Brown claims, “Ireland in the 1930s was not significantly attentive to modernism,” his later discussion of the contributions of the Irish Literary Revival appears to weaken his original claim (31). Modernism’s fondness for irony and self-conscious artistic creation may not be featured in the works of the Revival, but it is questionable whether the later Modernists would have had the foundations upon which to build without the experiments in translation and historical time undertaken by the Revivalists. One of the hallmarks of the Literary Revival was its recourse to the myths and legends of the Gaelic distant past. W.B. Yeats’ collection The Rose (1893) and Lady Gregory’s Cuchulain of Muirtheimne (1902) constitute some of the Revival’s most famous tributes to past Gaelic glory. For most scholars and readers of these stories of Cuchulainn or poems about Fergus and Finn, these works contain none of Modernism’s fondness for skepticism, difficulty, irony, or self-consci...
On November 16, 2001, Franklin Graham, leader of one of the largest conservative Christian organi... more On November 16, 2001, Franklin Graham, leader of one of the largest conservative Christian organizations in the nation, appeared on NBC Nightly News, expounding his views on God and Islam: “He’s [Allah] is not the son of God of the Christian or Judeo-Christian faith. It’s a different God, and I believe it [Islam] is a very evil and wicked religion” (para. 2). For the past 30 years, evangelical Christianity has grown in both religious and political power. For James M. Dunn, former Executive Director of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, this coalition is the “strongest alliance of religion with power since the Puritans” (qtd. in Cohen xi). Through this alliance, Evangelicals have transformed into a political force whose goal is to establish the “Kingdom of God” on earth. This godly kingdom will supplant the rampant secularism that Evangelicals feel has devastated the morality of the United States and precipitated the rapid decline of American influence abroad. The enemy o...
Although Terence Brown claims, “Ireland in the 1930s was not significantly attentive to modernism... more Although Terence Brown claims, “Ireland in the 1930s was not significantly attentive to modernism,” his later discussion of the contributions of the Irish Literary Revival appears to weaken his original claim (31). Modernism’s fondness for irony and self-conscious artistic creation may not be featured in the works of the Revival, but it is questionable whether the later Modernists would have had the foundations upon which to build without the experiments in translation and historical time undertaken by the Revivalists. One of the hallmarks of the Literary Revival was its recourse to the myths and legends of the Gaelic distant past. W.B. Yeats’ collection The Rose (1893) and Lady Gregory’s Cuchulain of Muirtheimne (1902) constitute some of the Revival’s most famous tributes to past Gaelic glory. For most scholars and readers of these stories of Cuchulainn or poems about Fergus and Finn, these works contain none of Modernism’s fondness for skepticism, difficulty, irony, or self-consci...