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Biographer and critic Jeffrey Meyers knew the novelist James Salter (1925-2015) during the last decade of his life, visited him twice on Long Island, and received eighty letters from him. Meyers's friendship and knowledge of Salter's life provide many new insights about the personal, cultural, and historical background of his work. This appreciative book, the first full-length study in twenty-six years, is intended to introduce Salter to new r...

Originally published in 1980 this was the first biography of Wyndham Lewis and was based on extensive archival research and interviews. Lewis is seen as an independent and courageous artist and one of the most controversial, stimulating figures in modern English art and literature.

British colonialism provided a rich vein of material for the novelists of the first half of the 20th century. This study, originally published in 1968, looks at five writers and their reaction to the Empire: Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene.

In his commentary on the Epistle of James, Jeffrey J. Meyers explodes the idea that James wrote a general epistle with a generalized message to everyone at all times. Instead, Meyers shows how James is addressing Jewish Christian disciples who were tempted to imitate the world in bringing about change through destructive means. By calling attention to the Hebrew Scriptures and the Beatitudes, Meyers contends that James is cautioning Christian ...

Originally published in 1980 this was the first biography of Wyndham Lewis and was based on extensive archival research and interviews. Lewis is seen as an independent and courageous artist and one of the most controversial, stimulating figures in modern English art and literature.

Revelation is resistance literature, written to instruct early Christians on how to live as followers of Jesus in the Roman Empire. The Nonviolent Apocalypse uses modern examples and scholarship on nonviolence to help illuminate Revelation's resistance, arguing that Revelation's famously violent visions are actually acts of nonviolent resistance to the Empire. The visions form part of Revelation's proclamation of God's way as a just and life-g...

British colonialism provided a rich vein of material for the novelists of the first half of the 20th century. This study, originally published in 1968, looks at five writers and their reaction to the Empire: Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene.

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Bible-reading is more of an art than a science. The Bible is a story, not a lexicon of systematic theological definitions. With this in mind, The Through New Eyes Bible Commentary Series builds on the foundational Biblical-theology work of James B. Jordan and other like-minded scholars in bringing you a set of commentaries that will help you read, teach and preach through the Bible while picking up on the rich symphonic themes and the literary...

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In the process of writing these profiles, Meyers discovers a common thread relating to himself: not only do these subjects provoke a kind of personal testing, they represent his search for the ideal father in his vivid intellectual and imaginative inquiry.

Begun as a practical pastoral guide to worship, this book balances theory and praxis to create a compelling case for a biblical, aesthetic, and covenantal worship service as the place where the Triune God and His people renew the bonds of love and loyalty.Jeffrey Meyers begins laying out a case for a covenant renewal service by means of Old Testament sacrificial liturgics, biblical typology, and covenant theology. He then guides us through the...

Major English novelist. Key themes: totalitarianism and English working classes. Writings include: The Road to Wigan Pier, Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty Four. Volume covers the period 1933-1969.

A window into the work of both creative writers and their biographers. It offers insights into the lives of writers such as Arthur Miller, V.S. Naipaul and Iris Murdoch, exploring their reactions to criticism, how they advanced their careers, and their struggles with money, love and illness.

This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors.

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A window into the work of both creative writers and their biographers. It offers insights into the lives of writers such as Arthur Miller, V.S. Naipaul and Iris Murdoch, exploring their reactions to criticism, how they advanced their careers, and their struggles with money, love and illness.