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In his day job, Augustus Strong was president and professor of Biblical theology at the Rochester Theological Seminary, and author of Systematic Theology. On summer vacations, he wrote about the theology of poetry. Revealing Strong’s deep knowledge and appreciation of the ‘literary immortals’ of Western literature, The Great Poets and their Theology discusses the work of nine poets with an eye...

pursue Odysseus even though Odysseus’ only fault was this, that he had rid the earth of a monster. The gods are placable sometimes, but at other times neither a just cause nor manifold offerings can remove their anger. The Zeus of Homer is only an immortal man. The gods are only projections into space and formal embodiments of human feelings, impulses, and passions. Aphrodite is little more than a name for illicit desire; Hermes for the disposition to falsehood. So Athene at times is but a figure
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