Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination (Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts)
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (935 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 140944936X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Second, the specific close readings of the works provide a model for apologists of how to interact with poetry on poetry's terms, and thus enter into an imaginative experience of great power Faith, Hope and Poetry is valuable not just for its specific insights, but also for its model of how to think, feel, and respond with both heart and mind as a Christian in the modern world.' Apologetics315 'Guite's method is to take the reader through a history of English religious poetry, with the aim of showing not merely that poetry has a natural theological bias, but that this theological o
His chapter on the poetry of CS Lewis appears in the Cambridge Companion to CS Lewis, 2010. . Malcolm Guite is a poet, priest and academic living and working in Cambridge. His recent writings include ’What Do Christians Believe?' 2006, 'Poetry, Playfulness and Truth’ a chapter on the theology of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest in Faithful Performances: Enacting Christian Tradition, ed. Trevor Hart and Stephen Guthrie Ashgate 2007
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'. This book is not solely concerned with overtly religious poetry, but attends to the paradoxical ways in which the poetry of doubt and despair also enriches theology. Developing an original analysis and application of the poetic vision of Coleridge, Larkin and Seamus Heaney in the final chapters, Guite builds towards a substantial theol
"Championing the Poetic Imagination" according to Signpoststeve. The first time I read this book was like the first time hearing a great album of music. So many delights so many unexpected turns so many great pay-offs.The second time, I found myself looking forward to certain sections, being dazzled by ones I missed the first time, and settling into the lovely, ambient air of Malcolm's poetic prose - itself a testament to the dictum, the medium is the message.The third time was more absorbing than the first two. No. "Probing--Illuminating--Opens up new vistas" according to Charles C. Twombly. I have worked through this amazing book, chapter by chapter, and have found stunning insights on virtually every page. Guite, both a theologian, literary scholar, and poet of great skill, takes us on a tour from the Middle Ages and the Dream of the Rood all the way to our contemporary, Seamus Heaney, with probing chapters on Shakespeare, Coleridge, and several others along the way.The hypothetical general reader interested in ways faith and art can co. This book is beautiful. This book is brilliant LittleL This book is beautiful. This book is brilliant.Before I read this book, I did not know that I was stuck in a valley, able to see only my own little piece of time and space, thoroughly isolated by the ideas of my own time and unable to see how these ideas were a product of all the history of writing and thinking that have gone before me.Malcolm Guite--priest, poet, scholar, and musician--beckoned me on a journey by explaining in the introduction the po