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	On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, and the Arts. Volume 1. Classic Formulations 4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Social Identities and Social Justice: Reconceiving Ethics and Politics in the Wake of Wokeism 4.75 avg rating — 15 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature: The Hope for Planetary Salvation 4.88 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, and the Arts. Volume 2. Modern and Contemporary Transformations 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Philosophy of the Unsayable 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Universality of What Is Not: The Apophatic Turn in Critical Thinking 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poetry and Apocalypse: Theological Disclosures of Poetic Language 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Theology of Literature: The Bible as Revelation in the Tradition of the Humanities 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dante and the Sense of Transgression: 'The Trespass of the Sign' really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dante's Interpretive Journey (Volume 1996) (Religion and Postmodernism) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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William Franke liked Mackenzie Scurry's review of Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature: The Hope for Planetary Salvation (Routledge Focus on Literature): "I found this book ambitious in the way it brings together literature, philosophy, religion, and ecological concerns to examine pandemics and the possibility of collective salvation. Rather than treating COVID-19 as an isolated event, Franke connects " Read more of this review »
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William Franke liked Olivia's review of Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature: The Hope for Planetary Salvation (Routledge Focus on Literature): "There is something powerful about discussing hope without pretending that suffering is easy or that every difficult situation has a simple solution. That is the aspect of this book I found most meaningful. Franke explores how literature can help us co" Read more of this review »
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William Franke liked Justin Masson's review of Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature: The Hope for Planetary Salvation (Routledge Focus on Literature): "What impressed me was the ambition behind this work. Bringing writers from different historical periods into a conversation about pandemics is not a small undertaking, yet it creates an interesting way to examine how humanity has responded to sufferi" Read more of this review »
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William Franke liked Jane M. Ensor's review of Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature: The Hope for Planetary Salvation (Routledge Focus on Literature): "A pandemic can make the world feel divided. People become frightened, communities struggle, and everyone tries to find a way to protect themselves and the people they love. Yet the experience also reveals how deeply connected our lives are. That is on" Read more of this review »
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William Franke made a comment on Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante — Can Literature Replace Religion? Finding the Sacred in a Secular World " Dear Elizabeth, The point you raise is crucial for any sense of secular scripture or secular revelation. The deepest work of awakening to the divine do ...more "
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