Author:Amos Niven Wilder

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Amos Niven Wilder (1895–1993)

sister projects: Wikipedia article. Amos Wilder was an American poet, minister, and theology professor. He studied two years at Oberlin College (1913–1915), transferring thereafter to Yale—where he earned his B.A., B.D., and Ph.D. (by 1920), but only after volunteering in the Ambulance Field Service and enlisting in the U.S. Field Artillery (as a corporal) during World War I.

Works

• Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939, 1950 rev. ed.)
• The Spiritual Aspects of the New Poetry (1940)
• Liberal Learning and Religion (1951, as editor)
• "The Christian Hope—Its Meaning for Today" (Section: "From Amos N. Wilder," p. 10-19): Religion in Life, Winter issue, 1951-1952.
• Modern Poetry and the Christian Tradition: A study in the relation of Christianity to culture (1952)
• Otherworldliness and the New Testament (1954)
• New Testament Faith for Today (1955)
• The Language of the Gospel: Early Christian rhetoric (1964)
• Kerygma, Eschatology, and Social Ethics (1966, c1965)
• Theology and Modern Literature (1967)
• The New Voice: Religion, literature, hermeneutics (1969)
• Theopoetic: Theology and the Religious Imagination (1976)
• Thornton Wilder and his Public (1980)
• Jesus' Parables and the War of Myths: essays on imagination in the Scripture (1982)
• The Bible and the Literary Critic (1991)
• Armageddon Revisited: A World War I Journal (1994)

Poetry

• Ode in a German Cemetery, where many victims of the Great War were interred (The Hibbert Journal, Jan 1922)
• Battle Retrospect, and other Poems (1923)
• Arachne: Poems by Amos Niven Wilder (1928)
• The Healing of the Waters (1943)
• Grace Confounding (1972)

in Yale Literary Magazine

• As One Who Leaves His Birthplace when a Child, a poem (Nov 1919)
• Moon-Rise, a poem (Jan 1920)
• Winter Night, a poem (Apr 1920)
• Campus Evening Hymn, a poem (June 1920)
• A Student's Walk (June 1920)

Works about

• A Fragile Craft: the work of Amos Niven Wilder (1981) by John Dominic Crossan.

Letters to Mr. Wilder

• Letter from Florence Earle Coates to Amos Niven Wilder (29 September 1923)
• Letter from Florence Earle Coates to Amos Niven Wilder (22 January 1924)
• Letter from Florence Earle Coates to Amos Niven Wilder (25 January 1924)
• Letter from Florence Earle Coates to Amos Niven Wilder (8 February 1924)

References

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