In Wonder, Love and Praise: Approaches to Poetry, Theology and Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9783631745243 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 224 str.

Martin Potter;Malgorzata Grzegorzewska;Jean Ward

Opis

By close readings of poems and by theoretical analysis involving theology, philosophy and literary criticism, this collection of essays explores poetry's contribution to the expression of theological wonder, which can occur both in ordinary life and in the natural world, or can arise in the context of explicitly supernatural mystical experience.

Spis treści

Aporias of Wonder - Wonder and Desire in Theology and Literature - Mystery, Wonder, Imagination - Wondering/Wandering - Epistemologies of Wonder - Agnosticism - Epiphanies in the Ordinary - "Saddened Wonder" - Shock and Awe - Self and World - Wonderment and the Commonplace - The Burning Bush - Poetic Magnificats

O autorze

Martin Potter specialises in aesthetics and the writings of Evelyn Waugh, Muriel Spark, and David Jones. He is also a poet.

Malgorzata Grzegorzewska is a specialist in Renaissance literature and drama and in connections between literature, philosophy and theology.

Jean Ward's research interests are literary translation and religious poetry, including Eliot, R.S. Thomas, and Elizabeth Jennings.