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Out of Darkness, Shining Light is a 2019 historical novel by Zimbabwean writer and lawyer Petina Gappah. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Her fourth novel, it was published by Faber & Faber in the UK and by Scribners in the US.
It was written by Cowper in 1773 as a poem entitled "Light Shining out of Darkness". [1] The poem was the last hymn text that Cowper wrote. It was written following his attempted suicide while living at Olney in Buckinghamshire. John Newton published the poem the next year in his Twenty-six Letters on Religious Subjects; to which are added ...
Jesus is understood to be the light of God, who is sent by the Father to illumine the world out of sin and darkness. [ 1 ] This phrase is the motto of Columbia University School of General Studies under the more complete lux in tenebris lucet , and was also the national motto for the former British colonial protectorate of Nyasaland (now Malawi ).
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[11] The term inward light was first used by early Friends to refer to Christ's light shining on them; the term inner light has also been used since the twentieth century to describe this Quaker doctrine. Rufus Jones, in 1904, wrote that: "The Inner Light is the doctrine that there is something Divine, 'Something of God' in the human soul". [12]
Phillips offers the reading "The light still shines in the darkness and the darkness has never put it out." [ 5 ] The Greek word, "κατέλαβεν (katelaben)", is an example of polysemy and can be equally translated as either "understand", "overtake" or "overcome" [ 6 ] .
In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the Divine Light illuminates the intellect [5] of man through "theoria" or contemplation. In the Gospel of John, the opening verses describe God as Light: "In Him was life and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it." (John 1:5)
According to the AllMusic review by Scott Yanow: "Horn sounds nothing like Charles, but she sometimes captures his spirit...While emphasizing ballads, as one always expects, this is a fun set that includes more medium-tempo tunes than usual for a Shirley Horn set".