Faith in Poetry

Faith in Poetry
Author: Michael D. Hurley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2017-11-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1474234097

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In this ambitious book, Michael D. Hurley explores how five great writers – William Blake, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot – engaged their religious faith in poetry, with a view to asking why they chose that literary form in the first place. What did they believe poetry could say or do that other kinds of language or expression could not? And how might poetry itself operate as a unique mode of believing? These deep questions meet at the crossroads of poetics and metaphysics, and the writers considered here offer different answers. But these writers also collectively shed light on the interplay between literature and theology across the long nineteenth century, at a time when the authority and practice of both was being fiercely reimagined.

Faith, Hope and Poetry

Faith, Hope and Poetry
Author: Malcolm Guite
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781409449362

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Faith, Hope and Poetry explores the poetic imagination as a way of knowing; a way of seeing reality more clearly. Presenting a series of critical appreciations of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day, Malcolm Guite applies the insights of poetry to contemporary issues and the contribution poetry can make to our religious knowing and the way we 'do Theology'. Readers of this book will return to their reading of poetry equipped with new insights and enthusiasm and will be challenged to integrate imaginative ways of knowing into their other academic and intellectual pursuits.

Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion

Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion
Author: Kirstie Blair
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2012-05-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199644500

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This study explores Victorian poetry in relation to Victorian religion, with particular emphasis on the bitter contemporary debates over the use of forms in worship. It discusses major Victorian poets - Tennyson, the Brownings, Rossetti, Hopkins, Hardy - and also argues that their work was influenced by a host of minor and less studied writers.

Great Spirits 1000-2000

Great Spirits 1000-2000
Author: Selina O'Grady
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2002
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

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This series of essays provides thumbnail biographies of key figures in Christianity's last thousand years. The entries provide basic information about the person's life, development, era and ideas. The towering historical figures include mystics, reformers, theologians and church leaders.

Poems of Faith in the Garden of Hope & Grace

Poems of Faith in the Garden of Hope & Grace
Author: Tracy Matarazzo
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2020-03-18
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1973687542

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God knew the deceitfulness of Satan and the outcome in the Garden of Eden; why then did He plant the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil? It is a question that has been asked for centuries. In her book, Poems of Faith in the Garden of Hope and Grace, the author writes in her first poem “Genesis”, that God created all things good the way He envisioned it. He is omniscient—all knowing. God, the Creator, had the solution to mankind’s fall before He established the universe. He knew He’d present Himself on the cross and destroy the work of the devil. These poems speak of God’s hope and grace, how we can take our stand against the enemy and how one day He’ll reestablish a new Paradise!

Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti
Author: Emma Mason
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2018
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0198723695

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Christina Rossetti (1830-94) is regarded as one of the greatest Christian poets to write in English. While Rossetti has firmly secured her place in the canon, her religious poetry was for a long time either overlooked or considered evidence of a melancholic disposition burdened by faith. Recent scholarship has redressed reductive readings of Christian theology as repressive by rethinking it as a form of compassionate politics. This shift has enabled new readings of Rossetti's work, not simply as a body of significant nineteenth-century devotional literature, but also as a marker of religion's relevance to modern concerns through its reflections on science and materialism, as well as spirituality and mysticism. Emma Mason offers a compelling study of Christina Rossetti, arguing that her poetry, diaries, letters, and devotional commentaries are engaged with both contemporary theological debate and an emergent ecological agenda. In chapters on the Catholic Revival, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, contemporary debates on plant and animal being, and the relationship between grace and apocalypse, Mason reads Rossetti's theology as an argument for spiritual materialism and ecological transformation. She ultimately suggests that Rossetti's life and work captures the experience of faith as one of loving intimacy with the minutiae of creation, a divine body in which all things, material and immaterial, human and nonhuman, divine and embodied, are interconnected.

Sea of Faith

Sea of Faith
Author: John Brehm
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2004
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780299202040

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In a masterful blending of lyric and narrative, Sea of Faith ranges across interior states and external worlds. From the Sierra Nevadas to New York City subways, from an imagined friendship with Lao Tzu to a meditation on Coney Island, from a comic and poignant classroom discussion to a sexual fantasy, John Brehm's poems explore the human predicament with tenderness, compassion, and humor.

My Bright Abyss

My Bright Abyss
Author: Christian Wiman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2013-04-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0374216789

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A passionate meditation on the consolations and disappointments of religion and poetry

What Words May Come

What Words May Come
Author: Cathi Snow Parish
Publisher:
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2019-07-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9781078351065

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This edition of What Words May Come contains 40 original Faith-based poems. The poetry herein is meant to inspire, comfort, prompt thought and bring a sense of peace and love to the reader's heart and soul.

The Ultimate Faith

The Ultimate Faith
Author: Anna Christina Grobe
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2009-04
Genre:
ISBN: 1606960407

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To be called to ministry as 'The Lord's Poet' Anna is a communicator from the heart that conveys a message to anyone and brings faith, hope, and love through Divine inspiration and the anointment and blessings from God. This book of poetry will bring peace to your heart. 'The Matter of the Heart' is a serious one. Pain, suffering, and tragedy are hardships that can be overcome, ushering in moments that bring us Joy and Happiness. Poet Anna Grobe writes to anyone: mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, daughter, or son; to any business, ministry, home, or church. The Ultimate Faith brings wholeness and life, touching hearts and souls. Used as a devotional book, a special gift, or to read for daily encouragement, this book will lighten your heart to our world's suffering and pain and bring a new perspective to your heart on God and how he gives us strength and brings us joy in our daily lives. Enlighten your inner spirit by reading this collection of poems. You will find yourself inspired to live with The Ultimate Faith. Anna Grobe, the Family Ambassador of Silverado Senior Living (specialists in any form of memory loss disease), is a promoter and encourager in her life and profession. With the ability to educate and understand the problems of others she is able to give them the words they need, words that they can relate to and can gain peace from.