God and Mystery in Words

Experience through Metaphor and Drama

AvDavid Brown

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

In God and Mystery in Words David Brown uses the way in which poetry and drama have in the past opened people to the possibility of religious experience as a launch pad for advocating less wooden approaches to Christian worship today. So far from encouraging imagination and exploration, hymns and sermons now more commonly merely consolidate belief. Again, contemporary liturgy in both its music and its ceremonial fails to take seriously either current dramatic theory or the sociology of ritual. Yet this was not always so. Poetry and drama, Brown suggests, grew out of religion, and therefore that creative potential needs to be rediscovered by religion.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-03-20
Mått:147 x 223 x 22 mm
Vikt:488 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:300
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780199231836

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

David Brown is Van Mildert Professor of Divinity at Durham University, and a Fellow of the British Academy.

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Brown's observations are frequently striking and often sharp. We lurch from the first gay kiss in the television soap opera Eastenders to the symbolism of different cuts of jeans...this book is beautifully written, always thought-provoking, and displays vast, quirkily juxtapositioned erudition.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction ; I. EXPERIENCE THROUGH METAPHOR ; 1. Logos and Mystery ; 2. Metaphor and Disclosure ; 3. Hymns and Psalms ; 4. Verbal and Visual Image ; II. EXPERIENCE THROUGH DRAMA ; 5. Drama and Religion ; 6. Enactment in Music ; 7. Performance, Costume, Staging ; Conclusion