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God‘s story is the story of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. But it‘s also humanity‘s story, the story of a world fallen and blown apart and of a world reshaped and restored. It‘s the beginning of all beginnings and the end of all ends. Join Brent Siddall and the Rev Ian ‘Reido‘ Reid as they explore God, time, salvation and the cosmos. Explore the stories of Western culture as they pivot and interact with the main narrative of salvation history.
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Saturday Oct 22, 2022
Saturday Oct 22, 2022
Why is the Victorian period so like our own? How does Tennyson’s poetry embody all of the struggle and grief of the Victorian period?
Brent Is joined by Louis Markos, professor in English at Houston Christian University in the States. ‘Pressing Forward – Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the Victorian Age’ is published by Sapientia Press.
- (1:05) The Victorian period so like our own;
- (2:20) What the Victorians can teach us. Evolution and creation. The nature of reality;
- (5:10) The crisis of faith in the Victorian period;
- (8:55) Tennyson’s ‘In Memorium’ and Victorian grief and struggle. Arthur Hallam;
- (15:20) Tennyson’s fashioning of a new relationship between religion and science;
- (22:15) Carlyle and Ruskin. The Industrial Revolution.
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Louis A. Markos 'Pressing Forward: Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the Victorian Age'
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