Word: renanism
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...book has a nostalgic flavor. It begins with a chapter on his first impressions of Paris, the result of an exploration he made 45 years ago with Arthur Symons into that remarkable artistic world inhabited by such figures as Mallarmé, Rodin, Verlaine, Huysmans, Edmond de Goncourt. Taine and Renan were then still alive, Zola and Anatole France were prominent figures, but the young Englishmen were most inspired by Verlaine, who greeted them jovially, talked poetry to them, and spent his last two francs to buy them a drink of rum. Readers of From Rousseau to Proust can determine...
Virgin Birth & Immaculate Conception Sirs: In the March 12 issue of your most interesting magazine, in a footnote to the article en- titled "Joseph's Son," reference is made to Kenan's Life of Christ. Your writer speaks of Renan as one "who also rejected the Immaculate Conception." It is very evident that your writer has fallen into the popular error of confusing the Virgin Birth with the Immaculate Conception. The doctrine of the Virgin Birth is one that is accepted by most Christians, whether Catholic or Protestant, while the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception is one which...
...Renan-Taine," Professor Morize, Emerson...
...Renan-Taine," Professor Morixe, Emerson...
...perfect servant. The Admirable Crichton, lately immortalized by the movies: The Life and Letters of John Keats edited by Lord Boughton: The Brothers Karamazov (2 vols.) Thedor Dostoevsky, generally conceded a place as one of the greatest works of the age: The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan...