Pain, pleasure and perversity : discourses of suffering in seventeenth century England /

Luther's 95 Theses begin and end with the concept of suffering, and the question of why a benevolent God allows his creations to suffer remains one of the central issues of religious thought. In order to chart the processes by which discourse relating to pain and suffering became marginalized d...

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Main Author: Yamamoto-Wilson, John R., 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England : Burlington, VT, 2013.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. The suffering self
  • pt. II. The suffering of others
  • pt. III. Suffering and gender.