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Making Nothing Happen : Five Poets Explore Faith and Spirituality.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextCopyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (230 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781409455165
  • 1409455165
  • 1409455157
  • 9781409455158
  • 147240694X
  • 9781472406941
  • 1409455173
  • 9781409455172
  • 9781306410939
  • 1306410932
  • 1315250039
  • 9781315250038
  • 1351920839
  • 9781351920834
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making Nothing Happen : Five Poets Explore Faith and Spirituality.DDC classification:
  • 248
LOC classification:
  • BX2350
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 (W)riting like a Woman: In Search of a Feminist Theological Poetics; 2 Steady until Sundown: Searching for the Holy; 3 Taking Form: On Becoming a Christian Poet; 4 Where Poems Come From: Spirituality, Emotion and Poiesis; 5 The Miracle of Poetry: Divine and Human Creativity; Index.
Summary: This is a conversation between five poet-theologians broadly within the Christian tradition who together form The Diviners. Each poet offers a reflection on how they understand the relation between poetry and faith, rooting their reflections in their own writing, and illustrating discussion with a selection of their own poems and opening up issues for deeper exploration and reflection. This book will interest poets, theologians and all those committed to the practice and nurturing of a contemplative attitude to life in which profound attention and respect are offered to words and to the creati.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)656713

Print version record.

Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 (W)riting like a Woman: In Search of a Feminist Theological Poetics; 2 Steady until Sundown: Searching for the Holy; 3 Taking Form: On Becoming a Christian Poet; 4 Where Poems Come From: Spirituality, Emotion and Poiesis; 5 The Miracle of Poetry: Divine and Human Creativity; Index.

This is a conversation between five poet-theologians broadly within the Christian tradition who together form The Diviners. Each poet offers a reflection on how they understand the relation between poetry and faith, rooting their reflections in their own writing, and illustrating discussion with a selection of their own poems and opening up issues for deeper exploration and reflection. This book will interest poets, theologians and all those committed to the practice and nurturing of a contemplative attitude to life in which profound attention and respect are offered to words and to the creati.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

English.