The Poem as Sacrament

The Poem as Sacrament
Title The Poem as Sacrament PDF eBook
Author Philip Ballinger
Publisher Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pages 276
Release 2000-05-11
Genre Religion
ISBN

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Through a study of the writings and intellectual development of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Dr. Philip Ballinger demonstrates why poetry is, as Hans Urs von Balthasar stated, the absolutely appropriate theological language. While circling Hopkins' visions of the nature of sensual experience, intuitive cognition, and the function of language, Ballinger focuses upon the sacramental intention of the Victorian Jesuit's poetry. Underlying Hopkins' poetry is a vision of reality as divinely revelatory or 'self-expressive'. For Hopkins, this revelatory character of creation is determined by the incarnation, and beauty, in fact, is a word for 'Christic self-expressiveness'.

The Poem as Sacrament

The Poem as Sacrament
Title The Poem as Sacrament PDF eBook
Author Philip A. Ballinger
Publisher Peeters Publishers
Pages 276
Release 2000
Genre Poetry
ISBN 9789042908079

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Through a study of the writings and intellectual development of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Dr. Philip Ballinger demonstrates why poetry is, as Hans Urs von Balthasar stated, "the absolutely appropriate theological language". While circling Hopkins' visions of the nature of sensual experience, intuitive cognition, and the function of language, Ballinger focuses upon the sacramental intention of the Victorian Jesuit's poetry. Underlying Hopkins' poetry is a vision of reality as divinely revelatory or 'self-expressive'. For Hopkins, this revelatory character of creation is determined by the incarnation, and beauty, in fact, is a word for 'Christic self-expressiveness'.

Sacrament of Bodies

Sacrament of Bodies
Title Sacrament of Bodies PDF eBook
Author Romeo Oriogun
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 75
Release 2020-03-01
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1496219643

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In this groundbreaking collection of poems, Sacrament of Bodies, Romeo Oriogun fearlessly interrogates how a queer man in Nigeria can heal in a society where everything is designed to prevent such restoration. With honesty, precision, tenderness of detail, and a light touch, Oriogun explores grief and how the body finds survival through migration.

The Angelgreen Sacrament

The Angelgreen Sacrament
Title The Angelgreen Sacrament PDF eBook
Author Eva Kristina Olsson
Publisher
Pages 64
Release 2021-10-15
Genre Poetry
ISBN 9781736324844

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Poetry. Translated by Johannes Goransson. "In lyrical vision and hypnotic spells, this book THE ANGELGREEN SACRAMENT, creates its own mythology...with subtle variations, repetitions and negations, it generates ethereal rhythms and ecstatic resonances as the language dissolves in a frighteningly beautiful song."--from Swedish Radio's announcement of The Lyric Prize

Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism

Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism
Title Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism PDF eBook
Author Regina Mara Schwartz
Publisher Stanford University Press
Pages 216
Release 2008-05-30
Genre Religion
ISBN 0804779554

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Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism asks what happened when the world was shaken by challenges to the sacred order as people had known it, an order that regulated both their actions and beliefs. When Reformers gave up the doctrine of transubstantiation (even as they held onto revised forms of the Eucharist), they lost a doctrine that infuses all materiality, spirituality, and signification with the presence of God. That presence guaranteed the cleansing of human fault, the establishment of justice, the success of communication, the possibility of union with God and another, and love. These longings were not lost but displaced, Schwartz argues, onto other cultural forms in a movement from ritual to the arts, from the sacrament to the sacramental. Investigating the relationship of the arts to the sacred, Schwartz returns to the primary meaning of "sacramental" as "sign making," noting that because the sign always points beyond itself, it participates in transcendence, and this evocation of transcendence, of mystery, is the work of a sacramental poetics.

Dream Work

Dream Work
Title Dream Work PDF eBook
Author Mary Oliver
Publisher Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Pages 100
Release 2014-11-04
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0802192416

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Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chrono­logically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for the finest book of poetry published in 1983 by an American poet. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness—so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive—continue in Dream Work. She has turned her attention in these poems to the solitary and difficult labors of the spirit—to accepting the truth about one's personal world, and to valuing the triumphs while transcending the fail­ures of human relationships. Whether by way of inheritance—as in her poem about the Holocaust—or through a painful glimpse into the present—as in "Acid," a poem about an injured boy begging in the streets of Indonesia—the events and tendencies of history take on a new importance here. More deeply than in her previous volumes, the sensibility behind these poems has merged with the world. Mary Oliver's willingness to be joyful continues, deepened by self-awareness, by experience, and by choice.

The Poetry of Immanence

The Poetry of Immanence
Title The Poetry of Immanence PDF eBook
Author Robert Whalen
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Pages 258
Release 2002-01-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780802036599

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In this extensive study of two of the most celebrated seventeenth-century religious poets, Robert Whalen examines the role of sacrament in the formation of early modern religious subjectivity. For John Donne and George Herbert, sacramental topoi became powerful conceptual tools with which to explore both the intersection of spiritual and material aspects of human experience and their competing claims to Christianity. Whalen's argument builds upon his central idea of 'sacramental Puritanism, ' or the effort to cultivate a Calvinist sense of interiority through a fully ceremonial apparatus, and thereby to reconcile the potentially disparate imperatives of sacrament and devotion. Unique in its combination of current historiography and informed analysis, its attention to the sacramental features of Donne's 'secular' lyrics, and its advancement of sacramental thought as an important element of Renaissance English culture, The Poetry of Immanence illuminates a crucial dimension of the work of two major Stuart writers. In his comprehensive critical readings, Whalen offers a substantial contribution to the increasing study of religious themes and devotion in the literature of the early modern period.