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Title Poetry and the religious imagination : the power of the word / edited by Francesca Bugliani Knox and David Lonsdale
Published Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Publishing Limited ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, 2015

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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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Poetry -- Religious aspects.
Imagination -- Religious aspects.
Religion in literature.
Spirituality in literature.
Experience (Religion) in literature.
Christianity and literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Christianity and literature
Experience (Religion) in literature
Imagination -- Religious aspects
Poetry -- Religious aspects
Religion in literature
Spirituality in literature
Form Electronic book
Author Bugliani Knox, Francesca, 1953- editor.
Lonsdale, David, 1944- editor.
ISBN 9781472426253
1472426258
Other Titles Power of the word