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Poetry and the religious imagination : the power of the word / edited by Francesca Bugliani Knox and David Lonsdale.

Contributor(s): Bugliani Knox, Francesca, 1953- [editor.] | Lonsdale, David, 1944- [editor.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Farnham, Surrey, England : Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate Publishing Limited ; Ashgate Publishing Company, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resource (281 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781472426253 (e-book).Other title: Power of the word.Subject(s): Religion and poetry | Imagination -- Religious aspects | Religion in literature | Spirituality in literature | Experience (Religion) in literature | Christianity and literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 809.1/9382 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Theology and literature in context. Theology and literature in the English-speaking world / Michael Kirwan; Why theologians are interested in literature: theological-literary hermeneutics in the works of Guardini, Von Balthasar, Tillich and Kuschel / Georg Langenhorst -- The religious imagination: from Thomas Aquinas to Wallace Stevens. Identifying a religious imagination / Michael Paul Gallagher; Religious imagination and poetic audacity in Thomas Aquinas / Olivier-Thomas Venard; Dante and the indispensability of the image / John Took; Law and divine mercy in Shakespeare's religious imagination: Measure for measure and The merchant of Venice / Paul S. Fiddes; Wallace Stevens on God, imagination and reality /John McDade -- Inspiration: poetry and poetry reading. Poetry as scripture, poetry as inspiration / Jay Parini -- The poet as "worldmaker": T.S. Eliot and the religious imagination / Dominic Griffiths -- Non tantum lecturi sed facturi: reading poetry as spiritual transformation / Antonio Dpadaro; Reading as active contemplation / Jennifer Reek -- Poets and spiritual experience: mystical gestures. "There is a verge of the mind": imagination and mystical gesture in Rilke's later poems / Mark S. Burrows; "The pulse in the wound": embodiment and grace in Denise Levertov's religious poetry / Sarah Law -- Poetry, religious imagination and religious belief. Images of the virgin in the late sixteenth century: the Catholic devotional poetry of Henry Constable / Lilla Grindlay.
Summary: "What is the role of spiritual experience in poetry? What are the marks of a religious imagination? How close can the secular and the religious be brought together? How do poetic imagination and religious beliefs interact? Exploring such questions through the concept of the religious imagination, this book integrates interdisciplinary research in the area of poetry on the one hand, and theology, philosophy and Christian spirituality on the other. Established theologians, philosophers, literary critics and creative writers explain, by way of contemporary and historical examples, the primary role of imagination in the writing as well as in the reading of poetry" -- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theology and literature in context. Theology and literature in the English-speaking world / Michael Kirwan; Why theologians are interested in literature: theological-literary hermeneutics in the works of Guardini, Von Balthasar, Tillich and Kuschel / Georg Langenhorst -- The religious imagination: from Thomas Aquinas to Wallace Stevens. Identifying a religious imagination / Michael Paul Gallagher; Religious imagination and poetic audacity in Thomas Aquinas / Olivier-Thomas Venard; Dante and the indispensability of the image / John Took; Law and divine mercy in Shakespeare's religious imagination: Measure for measure and The merchant of Venice / Paul S. Fiddes; Wallace Stevens on God, imagination and reality /John McDade -- Inspiration: poetry and poetry reading. Poetry as scripture, poetry as inspiration / Jay Parini -- The poet as "worldmaker": T.S. Eliot and the religious imagination / Dominic Griffiths -- Non tantum lecturi sed facturi: reading poetry as spiritual transformation / Antonio Dpadaro; Reading as active contemplation / Jennifer Reek -- Poets and spiritual experience: mystical gestures. "There is a verge of the mind": imagination and mystical gesture in Rilke's later poems / Mark S. Burrows; "The pulse in the wound": embodiment and grace in Denise Levertov's religious poetry / Sarah Law -- Poetry, religious imagination and religious belief. Images of the virgin in the late sixteenth century: the Catholic devotional poetry of Henry Constable / Lilla Grindlay.

"What is the role of spiritual experience in poetry? What are the marks of a religious imagination? How close can the secular and the religious be brought together? How do poetic imagination and religious beliefs interact? Exploring such questions through the concept of the religious imagination, this book integrates interdisciplinary research in the area of poetry on the one hand, and theology, philosophy and Christian spirituality on the other. Established theologians, philosophers, literary critics and creative writers explain, by way of contemporary and historical examples, the primary role of imagination in the writing as well as in the reading of poetry" -- Provided by publisher.

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