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An Unexpected Light: Theology and Witness in the Poetry and Thought of Charles Williams, Micheal O'Siadhail and Geoffrey Hill - Softcover
A growing number of professional theologians today seek to push theological inquiry beyond the relative seclusion of academic specialization into a broader marketplace of public ideas, and to recast the theological task as an integrative discipline, wholly engaged with the issues and sensibilities of the age. Accordingly, such scholars seek to draw upon and engage the insights and practices of a variety of cultural resources, including those of the arts, in their theological projects. Arguing that poetry can be a form of theological discourse, Mahan shows how poetry offers rich theological resources and instruction for the Christian church. In drawing attention to the peculiar advantages it affords, this book addresses one of the greatest challenges facing the church today: the difficulty of effectively communicating the Christian gospel with increasingly disaffected late-modern people.
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Acknowledgements; Permissions; Foreword by Ben Quash; Introduction: "Can Poetry Matter" [to Christian Theology]?; "From the Exposition of Grace to the Place of Images": Incarnational Witness and "the Way of Images" in Charles Williams' Arthuriad; Poetry as Remembrance: The Poetics of Testimony and Historical Redress in Micheal O'Siadhail's The Gossamer Wall; Geoffrey Hill's "Pitch of Attention" and "Poetic Kenosis" in The Triumph of Love; Conclusion; Bibliography.
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Acknowledgements; Permissions; Foreword by Ben Quash; Introduction: "Can Poetry Matter" [to Christian Theology]?; "From the Exposition of Grace to the Place of Images": Incarnational Witness and "the Way of Images" in Charles Williams' Arthuriad; Poetry as Remembrance: The Poetics of Testimony and Historical Redress in Micheal O'Siadhail's The Gossamer Wall; Geoffrey Hill's "Pitch of Attention" and "Poetic Kenosis" in The Triumph of Love; Conclusion; Bibliography.
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D. Stephen Long is Professor of Systematic Theology at Marquette University. amongst his ricent publications are 'Tragedy, Tradition, Transformism' (2007), 'The Goodness of God' (2008). Forthcoming from James Clarke & Co in Autumn 2010 is his 'Sovereighnty of God Debate'.
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“... Mahan’s aim to persuade Christians of the contribution contemporary imaginative writing can make to theological discourse is an entirely laudable one.” (Jonathan Herapath Theology, Vol.114, No. 2, March/April 2011)
“An Unexpected Light comes highly commended by prominent scholars in the literature and theology field. [...] ... we have cause to celebrate the remarkable explicatory gifts on display here, and to thank the author for inspiring us to discover or to appreciate anew three poets of rare significance.” (Robert Rhys The Glass, Number 23, Spring 2011)
“An Unexpected Light comes highly commended by prominent scholars in the literature and theology field. [...] ... we have cause to celebrate the remarkable explicatory gifts on display here, and to thank the author for inspiring us to discover or to appreciate anew three poets of rare significance.” (Robert Rhys The Glass, Number 23, Spring 2011)
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