Poetic Theology - 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 Poetic Theology write by William A. Dyrness. This book was released on 2011. Poetic Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What are the poetics of everyday life ? What can they teach us about God? Art, music, dance, and writing can certainly be poetic, but so can such diverse pastimes as fishing, skiing, or attending sports events. Any and all activities that satisfy our fundamental need for play, for celebration, and for ritual, says William Dyrness, are inherently poetic and in Poetic Theology he demonstrates that all such activities are places where God is active in the world. All of humanity s creative efforts, Dyrness points out, testify to our intrinsic longing for joy and delight and our deep desire to connect with others, with the created order, and especially with the Creator. This desire is rooted in the presence and calling of God in and through the good creation. With extensive reflection on aesthetics in spirituality, worship, and community development, Dyrness s Poetic Theology will be useful for all who seek fresh and powerful new ways to communicate the gospel in contemporary society. William Dyrness s bold invitation to a poetic theology shaped by Scripture, tradition, and imagination one luring us toward a fuller participation in beauty than argument or concept alone allow reminds us that truth itself is beautiful to behold and poetic to the core. . . . If poetry is in its deepest reflex an intensification of life, then Dyrness s call for a poetic theology is one we ignore at our peril, reminding us that faithful living is not only about proper thinking but also and, perhaps, more properly about the texture of our living and the quality of our loving. Mark S. Burrows Andover Newton Theological School Makes a strong case for aesthetics as one of the avenues used by God to draw human beings near to him and his glory. . . . A wonderful journey through Reformed spirituality and a wake-up call for Reformed theology. Cornelius van der Kooi Free University, Amsterdam
Poetry Does Theology
Poetry Does Theology - 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 Poetry Does Theology write by James Francis Rhodes. This book was released on 2001. Poetry Does Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What happens when poetry deals explicitly with a serious theological issue? In Poetry Does Theology, Jim Rhodes seeks one answer to that question by analyzing the symbiotic relationship that existed between theology and poetry in fourteenth-century England. He pays special attention to the narrative poems of Chaucer, Grosseteste, the Pearl-poet, the author of Saint Erkenwald, and Langland. Rhodes' careful analysis describes how the relationship between theology and poetry underwent a radical transformation as the latter half of the fourteenth century progressed.
Faith, Hope and Poetry
Faith, Hope and Poetry - 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 Faith, Hope and Poetry write by Malcolm Guite. This book was released on 2012. Faith, Hope and Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Faith, Hope and Poetry explores the poetic imagination as a way of knowing; a way of seeing reality more clearly. Presenting a series of critical appreciations of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day, Malcolm Guite applies the insights of poetry to contemporary issues and the contribution poetry can make to our religious knowing and the way we 'do Theology'. Readers of this book will return to their reading of poetry equipped with new insights and enthusiasm and will be challenged to integrate imaginative ways of knowing into their other academic and intellectual pursuits.
Poetry and Theology in the Book of Lamentations
Poetry and Theology in the Book of Lamentations - 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 Poetry and Theology in the Book of Lamentations write by Heath A. Thomas. This book was released on 2013. Poetry and Theology in the Book of Lamentations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book of Lamentations is a challenge to its readers. Its ambiguous theology, strident protestations against its deity, and haunting imagery confound interpreters. This monograph engages the enigma of Lamentations by assessing its theology. It does so, however, neither by tracing a single theological perspective through the book nor by reconstructing the history of the composition of the book. Rather, Heath Thomas assesses the poetry of Lamentations by offering a close analysis of each poem in the book. He reconsiders the acrostic as the foundational structure for the poetry, reads the book as an intentionally composed whole, and assesses the pervasive use of repetition, metaphor, and allusion. For the first time in the field, the analysis here is grounded on the insights of the Italian semiotician Umberto Eco. Drawing upon Eco's distinction between 'open' and 'closed' textualities, Thomas argues that Lamentations represents a distinctively 'open' text, one that presents its reader with a myriad of surprising avenues to interpret the poetry. This distinctive approach avoids a polarization in the portrait of God in Lamentations, arguing that its poetry neither justifies God outright nor does it exonerate God's people in the exilic age. Rather, it enables these theological visions to interrelate with each another, inviting the reader to make sense of the interaction. The ambiguous theological vision of Lamentations, then, is not a problem that the reader is intended to overcome but an integral feature in the construction of meaning. This original monograph offers a new perspective on how the poetry informs our appreciation of theological thought in the exilic age.
Theology and Poetry in Early Byzantium
Theology and Poetry in Early Byzantium - 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 Theology and Poetry in Early Byzantium write by Sarah Gador-Whyte. This book was released on 2017-04-19. Theology and Poetry in Early Byzantium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book studies Romanos' lively and dramatic hymns, highlighting especially the relationship between theological themes and performative rhetoric.
