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  • Likewise, the paintings installed at St. John the Divine contrasted early 20th century stained glass that celebrated Christian civilization, with the brooding interrogations of a God-haunted artist.

    Matthew Milliner: The Return Of The Religious In Contemporary Art Matthew Milliner 2011

  • Vincent Van Gogh was a handful: almost certainly a victim of epilepsy, perhaps an alcoholic, maybe mad from the leaded paint he worked with, but in any case a raving, God-haunted lunatic most of the time and nobody's favorite neighbor.

    In Philadelphia, Van Gogh's Nature Cure Dan Neil 2012

  • Likewise, the paintings installed at St. John the Divine contrasted early 20th century stained glass that celebrated Christian civilization, with the brooding interrogations of a God-haunted artist.

    Matthew Milliner: The Return Of The Religious In Contemporary Art Matthew Milliner 2011

  • In flash points that range from the murder of the anti-Islamic filmmaker Theo Van Gogh in Holland, to the controversy over the supposedly blasphemous Danish cartoons, to the question of whether to admit Turkey to the EU, secular Europe has found itself in unfamiliar, God-haunted, almost American territory.

    Crises of Faith 2007

  • In flash points that range from the murder of the anti-Islamic filmmaker Theo Van Gogh in Holland, to the controversy over the supposedly blasphemous Danish cartoons, to the question of whether to admit Turkey to the EU, secular Europe has found itself in unfamiliar, God-haunted, almost American territory.

    Crises of Faith 2007

  • Death has been his primary subject, even as a young man, though as the years pass and the books gather he seems less death-haunted than God-haunted.

    Memoirist of a Companionable Prairie Home 2008

  • Yet most of my annual raft of students for a course in the poetry of Milton arrive with a spiritual dryness that quickly ignites in the presence of the hugest God-haunted and -questing mind in Western letters.

    CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

  • Yet most of my annual raft of students for a course in the poetry of Milton arrive with a spiritual dryness that quickly ignites in the presence of the hugest God-haunted and -questing mind in Western letters.

    CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

  • God-haunted man is restful in every place because the all-sufficient resource accompanies him in the abiding companionship of God.

    Brooks by the Traveller's Way 1864-1923 1902

  • He is God-haunted, and in the consciousness of that presence he lives and moves and has his being.

    Brooks by the Traveller's Way 1864-1923 1902

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