vivify

The reader not only revels in accompanying Darwin in the discovery of natural selection, but also comes away with an invigorated sense of the liberating love of God who grounds and vivifies the entire process.--Daniel P.

The authors find the significance of the psalm in its focus on the sustaining of the cosmos, in its grateful appreciation of creation, in the creature's cry of wonder: "How numerous are your works, Yhwh; with wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your good things"; in Yahweh's tie to the wind, to the life-breath of creatures, and to the divine spirit that vivifies and creates; and postexilic redactions emphasize the frailty of human beings and call attention to disruptions of the cosmic order from a wrathful God or sinful human beings.

The aim of this collection of conference papers is, in the words of one of the editors, to explore 'the intersections of Ruskin, the word, and the image with the locus of the theatre and the real or imagined dramatic space which vivifies late Victorian modes of expression'.

It vivifies the manufactured world to make it one with nature.

But Spirit and earth also possess their own distinctive identities insofar as the Spirit is the unseen power who vivifies and sustains all living things while the earth is the visible agent of the life that pulsates throughout creation.

Nevertheless, the book is a valuable addition to the literature, if only because it narrates well an important human drama and thereby vivifies the struggles of Americans to come to grips with the suffering that accompanied downturns in the business cycle.