Academic literature on the topic 'George Tabernacle'

Samson, socalled "judge" and "nazarite", belongs to the same anti-heroic type as the legendary Amirani from Caucasus, masterly analyzd by George Charachidzé as a transformation of Prometheus. The two of them articulate a form of life which denies culture; their necessarily victorious enemies are women and blacksmiths. The human condition, being the world of bread, iron, work and death, stands in oppostion to the golden age. In Old Testament priestly thinking this "golden age" finds a spatial expression in the Tabernacle, administered by men, not women. In traditional christianity, to which belongs the t heme of the chained Devil, a replica of Amirani, the temptation is no longer, as with Samson and Amirani, to regress to a golden age, but to stay satisfied with the human condition of this world.

The following thesis is a study of how communities of Washington County, Utah developed within one of the most inhospitable deserts of the American West. A trend of reliance on public works programs during economic depressions, not only put people to work, but also provided an influx of outside aid to develop an infrastructure for future economic stability and growth. Each of these public works was carefully planned by leaders who not only saw the immediate impact these projects would have, but also future benefits they would confer. These communities also became dependent on acquiring outside investment capital from the Mormon Church, private companies and government agencies. This dependency required residents to cooperate not only with each other, but with these outside interests who now had a stake in the county's development. The construction of the Mormon Tabernacle and Temple in St. George during the 1870s made that community an important religious and cultural hub for the entire region. Large-scale irrigation and reclamation projects in the 1890s opened up new areas for agriculture and settlement. And in the 1920s and 1930s the development of Zion National Park and the construction of roads provided the infrastructure for one of the county's most important industries, tourism. Long after these projects' completion they still provided economic and cultural value to the communities they served. Some of these projects provided the infrastructural foundation that allowed Washington County communities to have greater security and control over their economic future. Over time the communities of southern Utah created dramatic reenactments and erected monuments of these very projects to celebrate and preserve the story of their construction. During the first decade of the twenty-first century Washington County has become one of the fastest growing areas in the country, and as a result public works programs continue to be important to support this growth.

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國立東華大學
創作與英語文學研究所
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This thesis explores the trajectory of George Herbert’s spiritual growth as revealed in The Temple. It illustrates such trajectory of Herbert’s spiritual growth as a metaphorical construction of Herbert’s “real spiritual tabernacle” conforming to God’s will. When building it, Herbert exerts great efforts to integrate sufferings into more realizing the divine will and improving relationship with God. Chapter one separates “The Altar” as the prologue of The Temple since it epitomizes what the whole Temple mainly expresses: faithful dependence on God. Then Chapter Two unveils the misconceptions in young Herbert’s self-dedication to God and the result from them. The selected poems― “The Thanksgiving”, “The Reprisal”, “The Agony” clarify to us the cunning crux that Herbert is craving for flaunting his poetic talents to win the patrons’ favors rather than glorify God’s love. To rectify Herbert’s problematic attitude, we could see in Chapter Three that God lets him fall into a kind of oscillations between whether or not discarding earthly attractions. This chapter exemplifies “EmploymentⅠ”, “The Holdfast”, and the series of “Jordan” poems to visualize such mental wavering state. Chapter Four chooses “AfflictionⅠ”, “The Collar” and “The Cross” to present Herbert’s vehement emotions in response to the divinely-allowed excruciations and prove the painful experiences as a necessary “exterior communion” with God. Chapter Five and Six illustrate Herbert’s alternations after overcoming afflictions. The poems: “Repentance”, “Joseph’s Coat”, “The Pearl”, and “Matins”, reveal that Herbert willingly submits himself to God. The final discussed lyric, “Love Ⅲ”could be viewed as an epilogue of The Temple. It portrays Herbert’s “inner communion” with God. In this spiritual feast Herbert has learned to put pure faith in God’s agape and complete his real spiritual tabernacle.