`What is truth ?': towards a theological poetics
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`What is truth ?': towards a theological poetics
Routledge, 2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [168]-191) and index
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Description
In a culture where institutional religion is in decline there is a pressing need for new theological strategies. Andrew Shanks argues for a fresh 'theological poetics', providing an eloquent first step towards meeting these needs and an alternative strategy for reconciling Christian theology with poetic truth.
Table of Contents
- Part I First principles
- Chapter 1 Faith: poetry versus metaphysical opinion
- Chapter 2 Confessions of a traitorous clerc
- Chapter 3 The 'pathos of shakenness'
- Chapter 4 'Mythic theology'
- Part II Case studies
- Chapter 5 The heritage of Amos
- Chapter 6 A shaken sacramentalism
- Chapter 7 Blake
- Chapter 8 Hoelderlin
- Chapter 9 'After Auschwitz'
- Part III Conclusion
- Chapter 10 Incredulity and liturgy
- Chapter 11 Envoi
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