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George Herbert and the Mystery of the Word

Author : Gary Kuchar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319440454
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book George Herbert and the Mystery of the Word written by Gary Kuchar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a historically and critically nuanced study of George Herbert's biblical poetics. Situating Herbert's work in the context of shifting ideas of biblical mystery, Gary Kuchar shows how Herbert negotiated two competing impulses within post-reformation thought—two contrary aspects of reformation spirituality as he inherited it: the impulse to certainty, assurance, and security and the impulse to mystery, wonder, and wise ignorance. Through subtle and richly contextualized readings, Kuchar places Herbert within a trans-historical tradition of biblical interpretation while also locating him firmly within the context of the early Stuart church. The result is a wide ranging book that is sure to be of interest to students and scholars across several different fields, including seventeenth-century studies, poetry and the bible, and literature and theology.

Waiting on the Word

Author : Malcolm Guite
Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1848258003
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Waiting on the Word written by Malcolm Guite and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every day from Advent Sunday to Christmas Day and beyond, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive seasonal reflections on it. A scholar of poetry as well as a renowned poet himself, his knowledge is deep and wide and he offers readers a soul-food feast for Advent. Among the classic writers he includes are: George Herbert, John Donne, Milton, Tennyson,and Christina Rossetti,as well as contemporary poets like Scott Cairns, Luci Shaw, and Grevel Lindop. He also includes a selection of his own highly praised work.

Comparative Essays on the Poetry and Prose of John Donne and George Herbert

Author : Russell M. Hillier
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 164453228X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (445 download)

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Book Synopsis Comparative Essays on the Poetry and Prose of John Donne and George Herbert by : Russell M. Hillier

Download or read book Comparative Essays on the Poetry and Prose of John Donne and George Herbert written by Russell M. Hillier and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together ten essays on John Donne and George Herbert composed by an international group of scholars. The volume represents the first collection of its kind to draw close connections between these two distinguished early modern thinkers and poets who are justly coupled because of their personal and artistic association. The contributors' distinctive new approaches and insights illuminate a variety of topics and fields while suggesting new directions that future study of Donne and Herbert might take. Some chapters explore concrete instances of collaboration or communication between Donne and Herbert, and others find fresh ways to contextualize the Donnean and Herbertian lyric, carefully setting the poetry alongside discourses of apophatic theology or early modern political theory, while still others link Herbert's verse to Donne's devotional prose. Several chapters establish specific theological and aesthetic grounds for comparison, considering Donne and Herbert's respective positions on religious assurance, comic sensibility, and virtuosity with poetic endings.

Materiality and Devotion in the Poetry of George Herbert

Author : Francesca Cioni
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198874405
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Book Synopsis Materiality and Devotion in the Poetry of George Herbert by : Francesca Cioni

Download or read book Materiality and Devotion in the Poetry of George Herbert written by Francesca Cioni and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses textual and material evidence -- in poetry, prayers, physiologies, sermons, church buildings and monuments, manuscript diaries and notebooks -- to explore how material things held spiritual meaning in George Herbert's poetry, and to reflect on scholarly approaches to matter and form in devotional poetry.

After Prayer

Author : Malcolm Guite
Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1786222108
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book After Prayer written by Malcolm Guite and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new poetry collection from bestselling poet and priest Malcolm Guite features more than seventy new and previously unpublished works. At the heart of this collection is a sequence of twenty seven sonnets written in response to George Herbert’s exquisite sonnet 'Prayer', each one describing prayer in an arresting metaphor such as ‘the church's banquet’, ‘reversed thunder’, ‘the Milky Way’, ‘the bird of paradise’ and ‘something understood’. In conversation with each of these, Malcolm’s sonnets offer profound insights into the nature of communion with God in all circumstances and conditions. Recognising that all poetry is a pursuit of prayer, After Prayer also includes forty five more widely ranging new poems, including a sonnet sequence on the seven heavens.

George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety

Author : Ceri Sullivan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019890682X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety written by Ceri Sullivan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary nudge theory points out that people make good choices over issues where they have had past experience of similar circumstances, where there is reliable, substantial, and relevant information about the situation, and where they will get prompt feedback about the effect of their decision. Yet none of these conditions apply to the most vital choice of action facing early modern Protestants: how can they be saved? In George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety, Ceri Sullivan uses nudge theory to show how practical divinity disregards the doleful conclusions of predestination--that salvation cannot be earned--to supply readers with suggestions on how to prepare to act, regardless of their final destiny. Such texts create cognitive niches to support cheerful, godly thought and action, in a way which is far from being despairing or compulsive. Their nudges were repeatedly put into practice by Herbert's friends, the Ferrars, who tried to form an ideal religious community at Little Gidding. These prescriptions and examples illustrate how George Herbert's The Temple (1633) is a compendium of the techniques of choice architecture. Herbert's poems are full of the humour emerging from a life of faith which is willing to guard high ideals by low cunning, stooping to use the least little things to change a self. George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety initially calls on theories of the extended mind to ask what sort of minor physical and social structures scaffold decisions, then examines a selection of nudges used by Herbert: contracts with the self, building a mind, cleaning a heart, conversing with God, making to-do lists, and working on working well.

George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture

Author : Simon Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009098063
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture written by Simon Jackson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study to uncover the profound impact of early modern musical culture on George Herbert's religious verse.

Gifts and Graces

Author : David Gay
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487505280
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Gifts and Graces written by David Gay and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores early modern debates over prayer and liturgy from Anglican and Puritan perspectives, highlighting the poetic representation of prayer on both sides of the controversy.

Immateriality and Early Modern English Literature

Author : Knapp James A. Knapp
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474457134
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Book Synopsis Immateriality and Early Modern English Literature by : Knapp James A. Knapp

Download or read book Immateriality and Early Modern English Literature written by Knapp James A. Knapp and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines literary engagement with immateriality since the 'material turn' in early modern studiesProvides six case studies of works by Shakespeare, Donne, and Herbert, offering new readings of important literary texts of the English Renaissance alongside detailed chapters outlining attitudes towards immateriality in works of natural philosophy, medicine, and theologyEmploys an innovative organization around three major areas in which problem of immaterial was particularly pitched: Ontology, Theology, and Psychology (or Being, Believing, and Thinking)Includes wide-ranging references to early modern literary, philosophical, and theological textsDemonstrates how innovations in natural philosophy influenced thought about the natural world and how it was portrayed in literatureEngages with current early modern scholarship in the areas of material culture, cognitive literary studies, and phenomenologyImmateriality and Early Modern English Literature explores how early modern writers responded to rapidly shifting ideas about the interrelation of their natural and spiritual worlds. It provides six case studies of works by Shakespeare, Donne and Herbert, offering new readings of important literary texts of the English Renaissance alongside detailed chapters outlining attitudes towards immateriality in works of natural philosophy, medicine and theology. Building on the importance of addressing material culture in order to understand early modern literature, Knapp demonstrates how the literary imagination was shaped by changing attitudes toward the immaterial realm.

Word in the Wilderness

Author : Malcolm Guite
Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1848256809
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Word in the Wilderness written by Malcolm Guite and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every day from Shrove Tuesday to Easter Day, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive reflections on it. A scholar of poetry and a renowned poet himself, his knowledge is deep and wide and he offers readers a soul-food feast for Lent.

The Nature of Christian Doctrine

Author : Emeritus Professor of Science and Religion Alister E McGrath
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198901445
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (989 download)

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Book Synopsis The Nature of Christian Doctrine by : Emeritus Professor of Science and Religion Alister E McGrath

Download or read book The Nature of Christian Doctrine written by Emeritus Professor of Science and Religion Alister E McGrath and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alister E. McGrath provides a fresh and engaging account of the origins, development, and abiding importance of Christian doctrine. The book explores why Christianity developed doctrines in the first place, and why doctrines continue to be vital to the present and future of Christian communities.

The Last Pilgrimage to Eternity

Author : Cyril L. Caspar
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839442540
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Last Pilgrimage to Eternity written by Cyril L. Caspar and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2018-03-31 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the advent of the reformation, concepts of living and dying were profoundly reconfigured. As purgatory disappeared from the spiritual landscape, other paths to the afterlife were rediscovered. Thus, when life draws to a close, the passage to the afterlife becomes a last pilgrimage, a popular early modern metaphor that has received little critical commentary. In a rigorous historical and theological reading, Cyril L. Caspar explores five major English poets - John Donne, Sir Walter Raleigh, George Herbert, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton - to unveil the poetical potential of the last pilgrimage as a life-transcending metaphor.

The Temple

Author : George Herbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Temple written by George Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Eucharist, Poetics, and Secularization from the Middle Ages to Milton

Author : Shaun Ross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192872893
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Eucharist, Poetics, and Secularization from the Middle Ages to Milton written by Shaun Ross and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-22 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eucharist, Poetics, and Secularization from the Middle Ages to Milton explains the astonishing centrality of the eucharist to poets with a variety of denominational affiliations, writing on a range of subjects, across an extended period in literary history. Whether they are praying, thinking about politics, lamenting unrequited love, or telling fart jokes, late medieval and early modern English poets return again and again to the eucharist as a way of working out literary problems. Tracing this connection from the fourteenth through the seventeenth century, this book shows how controversies surrounding the nature of signification in the sacrament informed understandings of poetry. Connecting medieval to early modern England, it presents a history of 'eucharistic poetics' as it appears in the work of seven key poets: the Pearl-poet, Chaucer, Robert Southwell, John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, and John Milton. Reassessing this range of poetic voices, The Eucharist, Poetics, and Secularization overturns an oft-repeated argument that early modern poetry's fascination with the eucharist resulted from the Protestant rejection of transubstantiation and its supposedly enchanted worldview. Instead of this tired secularization story, it fleshes out a more capacious conception of eucharistic presence, showing that what interested poets about the eucharist was its insistence that the mechanics of representation are always entangled with the self's relation to the body and to others. The book thus forwards a new historical account of eucharistic poetics, placing this literary phenomenon within a longstanding negotiation between embodiment and disembodiment in Western religious and cultural history.

The Soul in Paraphrase

Author : Leland Ryken
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433558645
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book The Soul in Paraphrase written by Leland Ryken and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians throughout the ages have written poetry as a way to commune with and teach about God, communicating rich truths and enduring beauty through their art. These poems, when read devotionally, provide a unique way for Christians to deepen their spiritual insight and experience. In this collection of over 90 poems by poets such as Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, and over 30 more, literary expert Leland Ryken introduces readers to the best of the best in devotional poetry, providing commentary that helps them see and appreciate not only the literary beauty of these poems but also the spiritual truths they contain. Literary-inclined readers and first-time poetry readers alike will relish this one-of-a-kind anthology carefully compiled to help them encounter God in fresh ways.

The English Works of George Herbert

Author : George Herbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The English Works of George Herbert written by George Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "George Herbert (3 April 1593 - 1 March 1633) was a Welsh born English poet, orator and Anglican priest. Being born into an artistic and wealthy family, he received a good education which led to his holding prominent positions at Cambridge University and Parliament. As a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, George Herbert excelled in languages and music. He went to college with the intention of becoming a priest, but his scholarship attracted the attention of King James I/VI. Herbert served in parliament for two years. After the death of King James and at the urging of a friend, Herbert's interest in ordained ministry was renewed. In 1630, in his late thirties he gave up his secular ambitions and took holy orders in the Church of England, spending the rest of his life as a rector of the little parish of Fugglestone St Peter with Bemerton St Andrew, near Salisbury.

God and Mystery in Words

Author : David Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199231834
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book God and Mystery in Words written by David Brown and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2008-03-20 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging book that moves from Greek drama to modern poetry, David Brown explores the ways in which the poetry and drama of the past were rooted in religious questions. He posits that their creative potential needs to be rediscovered to bring present-day worship and experience of God alive.