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Christian Imagination In Poetry And Polity
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Book Synopsis Christian Imagination in Poetry and Polity by : Rowan Williams,
Download or read book Christian Imagination in Poetry and Polity written by Rowan Williams, and published by SLG Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairacres Publications 144 Exploring some of the finest passages in English prose and poetry, from William Tyndale to the end of the twentieth century, Rowan Williams pursues strands of thought in Christian contemplation which reflect on social responsibility. He perceives this approach as being deeply characteristic of the Anglican spirit and invites us to recognize its enduring significance in our own day.
Book Synopsis Poetry and the Religious Imagination by : Francesca Bugliani Knox
Download or read book Poetry and the Religious Imagination written by Francesca Bugliani Knox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the religious imagination in the writing as well as in the reading of poetry.
Book Synopsis Nationhood, Providence, and Witness by : Carys Moseley
Download or read book Nationhood, Providence, and Witness written by Carys Moseley and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this eloquently argued work Carys Moseley provides an original angle of criticism on the issue of nationhood and Christianity, asserting that Christianity must relate to nationhood as the nation structure is part of God's plan for humanity. The book addresses three major themes in the field of theology and nationhood. The first is that anti-nationalism and anti-Zionism are often two sides of the same coin, and involve taking leave of a providential reading of the Bible as well as a willingness to understand history in broadly providential terms. The second is that such an approach tends to involve a reluctance to recognise subordinated Gentile nations, especially those that have lost independence. Moseley studies the work of four theologians - Reinhold Niebuhr, Rowan Williams, John Milbank and Karl Barth - to examine the difference between nationhood and statehood. She provides a perspective on Wales as a stateless nation, as an example of a Gentile parallel to Israel. Thirdly, Moseley links social theorists to the theologians to explore their affinities. Niebuhr is paired with Mark Juergensmeyer, and Rowan Williams is juxtaposed to the debate between Adrian Hastings and Anthon Smith. Nationhood, Recognition and Providence will interest anyone concerned with nationhood and Israel in protestant theology, and offers unique insights into stateless nations from the Welsh-born author's perspective.
Book Synopsis The Christian Imagination by : Leland Ryken
Download or read book The Christian Imagination written by Leland Ryken and published by Shaw Books. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian Imagination brings together in a single source the best that has been written about the relationship between literature and the Christian faith. This anthology covers all of the major topics that fall within this subject and includes essays and excerpts from fifty authors, including C.S. Lewis, Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Sayers, and Frederick Buechner.
Book Synopsis On Rowan Williams by : Matheson Russell
Download or read book On Rowan Williams written by Matheson Russell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theologian, poet, public intellectual, and clergyman, Rowan Williams is one of the leading lights of contemporary British theology. He has published over twenty books and one hundred scholarly essays in a distinguished career as an academic theologian that culminated in his appointment as Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford University. Williams left this post to serve in the Anglican Church, first as Bishop of Monmouth, then Archbishop of Wales, before finally being enthroned in 2003 as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury. In this collection of essays, a talented younger generation of Australian theologians critically analyzes the themes that bind together Williams's theology. These sympathetic yet probing essays traverse the full breadth of Williams's work, from his studies on Arius, the Desert Fathers, Hegel, and Trinitarian theology to his more pastoral writings on spirituality, sexuality, politics, and the Anglican Church.
Book Synopsis The Christian Imagination by : Leland Ryken
Download or read book The Christian Imagination written by Leland Ryken and published by Baker Publishing Group (MI). This book was released on 1981 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The essays in this volume," writes the editor, "represent essays that I have found essential to my own thinking about Christianity and the arts." He recommends them as "the materials from which anyone can build a solid Christian approach to the arts." The articles are clustered around these topics: a philosophy of the arts, literature, eight literary forms (myth, tragedy, satire, comedy, the novel, poetry, drama, film), the writer, the visual arts, and music. All contributions offer Christian perspectives on these subjects. - Back cover.
Download or read book Geoffrey Hill written by John Lyon and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of scholarly essays on Geoffrey Hill, including pioneering work by Rowan Williams and Christopher Ricks, which provides insights into the cultural, literary, political, and theological complexities of a figure thought by many to be the finest living English poet.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Religion by : Susan M. Felch
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Religion written by Susan M. Felch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each essay in this Companion examines literary texts and a particular religious tradition to better understand both literature and religion.
Book Synopsis Jesus in the Theology of Rowan Williams by : Brett Gray
Download or read book Jesus in the Theology of Rowan Williams written by Brett Gray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brett Gray traces the portrayal of Christ that emerges throughout Williams' diverse writings, including in his engagements with literature and philosophy. What emerges is a vision of Jesus that grows from the roots of the Christian tradition, but is pronounced in a contemporary idiom and sensitive to modern concerns. Although attentive to the broad sweep of the Christian tradition, Williams' Christology is also seen in this book to be a particular British artefact, shaped in dialogue with thinkers such as Donald MacKinnon and Gillian Rose. What is ultimately brought to the surface in this work is the profoundly hopeful, if frequently under-pronounced, eschatology underlying Williams' Christology. Jesus is the “last word”, changing creation's possibilities and summoning it into an endless and vivifying journey.
Book Synopsis British Foreign Policy and the Anglican Church by : Timothy Blewett
Download or read book British Foreign Policy and the Anglican Church written by Timothy Blewett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst the views of leaders within the Church of England are frequently canvassed during periods of national crisis, little attention has been devoted to finding out whether there are Church perspectives on contemporary foreign policy issues. The Church of England has not been regarded as an actor with a strong input into international affairs, preferring to speak out on domestic and individual issues. Yet world politics present fundamental ethical dilemmas which call for careful deliberation and the Church has a role to play both in shaping the debate and arguing for particular policy directions. To what extent is national policy shaped by underlying Christian values. Do the campaigning efforts of faith groups really exert influence and guide the development of state policy? This book seeks to elucidate whether there are particular Christian perspectives on the role that Great Britain should play in the world today. It investigates the role that the Church of England has played in contemporary foreign policy issues: including the use of force - intervention, counter-terrorism and arms sales - and overseas trade, aid and debt forgiveness. The book brings together senior individuals from within the Church, academia and non-governmental organisations to investigate these various ethical dilemmas.
Book Synopsis Happiness and Holiness by : Denise Inge
Download or read book Happiness and Holiness written by Denise Inge and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 17th century writer Thomas Traherne is increasingly being recognised and studied as a theologian as well as a poet. The discovery, in 1997, announced by the author of this volume, of five new prose works and a poetic work has given huge impetus to the study of Traherne in literature and theology. This affordable, concise introduction to Traherne's life and work concerns Traherne primarily as a theologian and places him in an historical and intellectual context he has thus far lacked. It demonstrates his distinctive contribution to Anglican theology. Consisting of a 10,000 word introductory essay and biography it is followed by extracts from Traherne's work under the following headings: Creatures and Powers, Holiness and Happiness, Sin and Salvation, Christian Liberty, Advice on Ministry, and Prayers.
Book Synopsis Poetry and the Religious Imagination by : Francesca Bugliani Knox
Download or read book Poetry and the Religious Imagination written by Francesca Bugliani Knox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the religious imagination in the writing as well as in the reading of poetry.
Book Synopsis Archbishop William Temple by : Stephen Spencer
Download or read book Archbishop William Temple written by Stephen Spencer and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership is a growing preoccupation of the contemporary church, but for some of the most inspiring examples of good leadership we need to go back, not forwards. Archbishop William Temple is widely regarded as one of the most influential church leaders of the twentieth century. In this book Stephen Spencer unpacks Archbishop Temple’s life and legacy, and the ways in which his leadership transformed society in remarkable ways. From education to politics, and from spiritual direction to leading the church through national crisis, this book draws on Temple’s biography to offer a unique and profound portrait of the kind of servant leadership the church needs today.
Download or read book Tyndale written by David Teems and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was an outlawed book, a text so dangerous “it could only be countered by the most vicious burnings, of books and men and women.” But what book could incite such violence and bloodshed? The year is 1526. It is the age of Henry VIII and his tragic Anne Boleyn, of Martin Luther and Thomas More. The times are treacherous. The Catholic Church controls almost every aspect of English life, including access to the very Word of God. And the church will do anything to keep it that way. Enter William Tyndale, the gifted, courageous “heretic” who dared translate the Word of God into English. He worked in secret, in exile, in peril, always on the move. Neither England nor the English language would ever be the same again. With thoughtful clarity and a reverence that comes through on every page, David Teems shares a story of intrigue and atrocity, betrayal and perseverance. This is how the Reformation officially reached English shores—and what it cost the men who brought it there. Praise for David Teems’ previous work Majestie “Teems . . . pulls together the story of this enigmatic king [ James] with humor and pathos . . . [A] delightful read in every way.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Download or read book Growing Old With God written by Tom Rudd and published by SLG Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairacres Publications 104 This heartening and perceptive study outlines common problems and sorrows in the ageing process. But there can be growth and fulfilment, too, and benefit to others. Tom Rudd affirms God’s loving purposes, encouraging us to see that the retirement years can give us an opportunity to rediscover our spiritual needs and the work of prayer.
Book Synopsis A Kind of Watershed by : Christine North
Download or read book A Kind of Watershed written by Christine North and published by SLG Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairacres Publications 111 The watershed shown on the front cover is Striding Edge in the Helvellyn area of the Lake District. The shadow on one side of the ridge and light on the other are a striking visual image of the experience of forgiveness and new life which the author has come to associate with repentance. Her personal introduction to this sacrament explains why to go to confession and how to set about it. As Michael Mayne says in his foreword, ‘Those who have known that sense of liberation, even resurrection, within the context of sacramental confession will not need Chris North’s words to confirm their own experience. Others, who are not aware that confession is available or are suspicious of this good Anglican practice, may be reassured and encouraged to explore for themselves this most costly yet rewarding of ways of encountering the grace of God.
Book Synopsis An Ecology of the Heart by : Duncan Forbes
Download or read book An Ecology of the Heart written by Duncan Forbes and published by SLG Press. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terms such as ‘climate grief’ and ‘ecological anxiety’ describe the sadness and desolation triggered in many people in response to our changing climate. What are we to do with this aching that is sometimes dull, sometimes sharp? Nowhere is immune from extreme weather events, from physical suffering and even death. How should we react to this? These are questions that are central to every religious account of the world and its peoples. This book looks at the insights that can be gained from the world’s faith traditions, particularly Christianity. By considering the extent of the ecological crises that humanity faces, this book discusses the new and searching questions that these crises raise for us and for our faith, and how those questions reflect our approach to our environment and our responsibility in and for the world.
