David Brooks's column in today's New York Times suggests a search for the origin of the phrase used as the title of a book Brooks is reviewing— All Things Shining , by philosophy professors Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly.
The phrase occurred, notably, in Terrence Malick's 1998 film "The Thin Red Line." I have not yet found an earlier usage.
(A search within the book for "title" yielded no relevant results, and such searches for "Malick" and for "Thin Red Line" yielded no results.)
For some background, see an August 20 weblog post by Kelly, Shining in Homer.
For some other background, see an August 20 post in this weblog.
Update: The phrase occurs in Stephen Mitchell's 1989 translation from the Odes of Solomon—
And you have made all things new;
you have showed me all things shining.