The Transforming Power of Prayer: From Illusion to Reality - Couverture souple

Marshall, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1441117245 ISBN 13 : 9781441117243

Editeur : Continuum Publishing Corporation, 2010

Synopsis

Current public discussion of religion is characterized by conflict and acerbity. This is due in part to the deeply antagonistic structures of religious debates: science vs religion, theism vs atheism, creationism vs evolution, and so on. This book looks to Blake's and Wordsworth's poetry for a different type of interpretive engagement with religion: one that can include rather than exclude, and creatively interrelate rather than destructively set at odds different approaches to religion. The discussion focuses on a key religious vision of each poet, and finds its way into the question of religion via the reception history of academic and popular responses to these two visions: the autobiographical, biographical, historical, mystical, psychedelic, and theological. These different interpretations reflect different facets of the visions in question, and mirror their synthesizing inclusivity. As the two poets negotiate different personal and corporate experiences of religion, their poetry achieves this inclusive form of engagement not by seeking an unworldly perspective that has transcended such debates, but by making religious vision an open meeting ground for conflicting discourses.

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À propos de l'auteur

Bishop Michael Marshall is a writer and spiritual director. He was the Vicar of All Saints Margaret Street in London and was Bishop of Woolwich at the age of 39, subsequently moving to the USA where he was the founding Director of the Anglican Institute. On returning to this country in 1992 he was appointed as one of the Advisors to the Archbishops of York and Canterbury for the Decade of Evangelism. He also lists concert pianist among his many accomplishments.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Continuum Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1441117245
• ISBN 13: 9781441117243
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible