Poetics of the Incarnation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poetics of the Incarnation write by Cristina Maria Cervone. This book was released on 2013-02-11. Poetics of the Incarnation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Gospel of John describes the Incarnation of Christ as "the Word made flesh"—an intriguing phrase that uses the logic of metaphor but is not traditionally understood as merely symbolic. Thus the conceptual puzzle of the Incarnation also draws attention to language and form: what is the Word; how is it related to language; how can the Word become flesh? Such theological questions haunt the material imagery engaged by medieval writers, the structural forms that give their writing shape, and even their ideas about language itself. In Poetics of the Incarnation, Cristina Maria Cervone examines the work of fourteenth-century writers who, rather than approaching the mystery of the Incarnation through affective identification with the Passion, elected to ponder the intellectual implications of the Incarnation in poetical and rhetorical forms. Cervone argues that a poetics of the Incarnation becomes the grounds for working through the philosophical and theological implications of language, at a point in time when Middle English was emerging as a legitimate, if contested, medium for theological expression. In brief lyrics and complex narratives, late medieval English writers including William Langland, Julian of Norwich, Walter Hilton, and the anonymous author of the Charters of Christ took the relationship between God and humanity as a jumping-off point for their meditations on the nature of language and thought, the elision between the concrete and the abstract, the complex relationship between acting and being, the work done by poetry itself in and through time, and the meaning latent within poetical forms. Where Passion-devoted writing would focus on the vulnerability and suffering of the fleshly body, these texts took imaginative leaps, such as when they depict the body of Christ as a lily or the written word. Their Incarnational poetics repeatedly call attention to the fact that, in theology as in poetics, form matters.
Poetics of the Incarnation
Poetics of the Incarnation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poetics of the Incarnation write by Cristina Maria Cervone. This book was released on 2012. Poetics of the Incarnation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author explores the work of fourteenth-century writers who discussed the intellectual implications of the religious idea of Incarnation in poetical and rhetorical forms. The book then goes on to discuss how the Incarnation of Christ allowed writers to meditate on the nature of language and form.
Poetics of the Flesh
Poetics of the Flesh - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poetics of the Flesh write by Mayra Rivera. This book was released on 2015-10-15. Poetics of the Flesh available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Poetics of the Flesh Mayra Rivera offers poetic reflections on how we understand our carnal relationship to the world, at once spiritual, organic, and social. She connects conversations about corporeality in theology, political theory, and continental philosophy to show the relationship between the ways ancient Christian thinkers and modern Western philosophers conceive of the "body" and "flesh.” Her readings of the biblical writings of John and Paul as well as the work of Tertullian illustrate how Christian ideas of flesh influenced the works of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Foucault, and inform her readings of Judith Butler, Frantz Fanon, and others. Rivera also furthers developments in new materialism by exploring the intersections among bodies, material elements, social arrangements, and discourses through body and flesh. By painting a complex picture of bodies, and by developing an account of how the social materializes in flesh, Rivera provides a new way to understand gender and race.
Image and Incarnation
Image and Incarnation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Image and Incarnation write by Walter Melion. This book was released on 2015-09-01. Image and Incarnation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The doctrine of the Incarnation was wellspring and catalyst for theories of images verbal, material, and spiritual. Section I, “Representing the Mystery of the Incarnation”, takes up questions about the representability of the mystery. Section II, “Imago Dei and the Incarnate Word”, investigates how Christ’s status as the image of God was seen to license images material and spiritual. Section III, “Literary Figurations of the Incarnation”, considers the verbal production of images contemplating the divine and human nature of Christ. Section IV, “Tranformative Analogies of Matter and Spirit”, delves into ways that material properties and processes, in their effects on the beholder, were analogized to Christ’s hypostasis. Section V, “Visualizing the Flesh of Christ”, considers the relation between the Incarnation and the Passion.
A Poetics of Orthodoxy
A Poetics of Orthodoxy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Poetics of Orthodoxy write by Benjamin P. Myers. This book was released on 2020-12-17. A Poetics of Orthodoxy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What makes one poem better than another? Do Christians have an obligation to strive for excellence in the arts? While orthodox Christians are generally quick to affirm the existence of absolute truth and absolute goodness, even many within the church fall prey to the postmodern delusion that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." This book argues that Christian doctrine in fact gives us a solid basis on which to make aesthetic judgments about poetry in particular and about the arts more generally. The faith once and for all delivered unto the saints is remarkable in its combined emphasis on embodied particularity and meaningful transcendence. This unique combination makes it the perfect starting place for art that speaks to who we are as creatures made for eternity.
