Umfang:
1 online resource (279 pages)
ISBN:
9781000194654
Serie:
Routledge Studies in Religion Ser.
Inhalt:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Approaching the prophetic: orientations, ancient and modern -- 1 At the creative source of the arts: poetry as prophecy in a negative theological key -- 2 Isaiah: reading writing, re-voicing silent Israel -- 3 'Diversely and in many ways God spoke by the prophets': New Testament perspectives and the texts and images of William Blake on the 'prophetic word' -- 4 Poetry, prophecy and the angelic voice: reflections on the divine word -- 5 Prophecy and the poetic word -- Part II Prophecy in the critical lens of philosophy -- 6 Explanation, silence, and then poetry: Wittgenstein's poetic philosophy as a prophetic vision of life -- 7 The philosopher Empedocles as prophet and his reception by Freud -- 8 Prophecy and presence: reading the signs of the times with Jacques Ellul -- 9 Beyond the 'immanent frame': Charles Taylor as a reader of poetry -- Part III The prophetic in the witness of literature -- 10 John Clare's Romantic 'I': a prophetic poetics of testimony -- 11 Fearful Symmetry, seventy years on: Northrop Frye on William Blake -- 12 Czesław Miłosz and R. S. Thomas as prophetic voices of our time -- 13 When does a pilgrim become a prophet?: R. S. Thomas, 'This to do,' and the shaping of a prophet -- 14 T. S. Eliot and Tadeusz Różewicz: the prophetic strain -- 15 The forerunners: St. John the Baptist and Lazarus in the poetry of T. S. Eliot -- Part IV Looking forward: framing the question of the prophetic in late modernity -- 16 The power of spiritual poetry in a secular world -- 17 "Nature is never spent"? The prophetic voice in contemporary Canadian ecological poetry -- 18 Prophecy as hope: interpreting the silence of Holy Saturday -- Index.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780367344108
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe International Power of the Word Conference ((5th : : 2017 : University of Oxford)) Prophetic witness and the reimagining of the world London : Routledge, 2020 ISBN 9780367344108
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Prophetie
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Fiktion
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Literatur
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Theologie
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Philosophie
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Konferenzschrift
Mehr zum Autor:
Burrows, Mark S. 1955-
