Heaven in Ordinary

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-7188-9541-9
Verlag: The Lutterworth Press

Buch, Englisch, 159 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 254 g

A personal journey through poetry and faith, exploring the themes of five English poets in relation to Christianity and the Anglican tradition in particular.

Heaven in Ordinary is like a love affair with poetry that engages with religious questions, for good or ill, concerned with five poets who are haunted by God. Poets, in times of great faith and times of doubt, have expressed for us their sense of both the presence and the absence of God in language that is sometimes almost sacramental in its weight of beauty, love, fear, anger or despair. The poets considered here all relate, in some way, to the traditions of Anglicanism through the centuries, reflecting both a common humanity and a wide breadth of human experience as it struggles with God. Heaven in Ordinary is deliberately autobiographical in approach, as it is grounded in David Jasper's own lifetime experience of reading poetry since his school years, and over four decades as a priest. The poets he so beautifully discusses have related both positively and negatively to the Christian faith and the Anglican tradition. Some are deeply religious, others are haunted by God and the divine mystery.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jasper, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. Thomas Hardy: Faith and Doubt

3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Words as Living Things

4. Thomas Traherne: Objects of Happiness

5. Sir Philip Sidney: High Matter in Noble Form

6. Sir Geoffrey Hill: The Strange Flesh Untouched

7. The Pastoral Tradition in English Poetry

8. Conclusion: or, Last Words

Reading List

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jasper, David
David Jasper is a theologian with a particular interest in the nineteenth century. He is emeritus professor at the University of Glasgow, where he was formerly professor of literature and theology. Recent publications include The Language of Liturgy (2018). He has been an Anglican priest for forty-six years and is canon theologian of St. Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow.