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Author: Michael Paul Gallagher, SJ
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1587682621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on examples from literature, film and, popular culture, the author explores fresh ways to bring Christianity into the secular world.
Author: Michael Paul Gallagher
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780809140701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on examples from literature, film and, popular culture, the author explores fresh ways to bring Christianity into the secular world. +
Author: Selina O'Grady
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Malcolm Guite
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781409449362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFaith, 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.
Author: John Brehm
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780299202040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: Christian Wiman
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-04-02
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 0374216789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA passionate meditation on the consolations and disappointments of religion and poetry
Author: Alberto Ríos
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlberto Rios explains the world not through reason but magic. These poems-set in a town that straddles Mexico and Arizona-are lyric adventures, crossing two and three boundaries as easily as one, between cultures, between languages, between senses. Drawing upon fable, parable, and family legend, Rios utilizes the intense and supple imagination of childhood to find and preserve history beyond facts: plastic lemons turning into baseballs, a grandmother's long hair reaching up to save her life, the painted faith jumpers leaping to the earth and crowd below. This is magical realism at its shimmering best. The smallest muscle in the human body is in the ear. It is also the only muscle that does not have blood vessels; It has fluid instead. The reason for this is clear: The ear is so sensitive that the body, if it heard its own pulse, Would be devastated by the amplification of its own sound. In this knowledge I sense a great metaphor, But I do not want to be hasty in trying to capture or describe it. Words are our weakest hold on the world. -from "Some Extensions of the Sovereignty of Science" "Rios is onto something new in his poetry-in the way that the real poets of any time always are."-American Book Review Alberto Rios teaches at Arizona State and is the author of eight books of poetry, three collections of short stories, and a memoir about growing up on the Mexican border. He is the recipient of numerous awards and his work is included in over 175 national and international literary anthologies. His work is regularly taught and translated, and has been adapted to dance and both classical and popular music.
Author: Meghan O'Gieblyn
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2022-07-12
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0525562710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. • "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks thoughtfully and articulately to the most crucial issues awaiting our future." —Phillip Lopate “[A] truly fantastic book.”—Ezra Klein For most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descartes's division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousness—i.e., souls—might be illusions. Now the inexorable rise of technology, with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control, and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding, the core questions of existence—identity, knowledge, the very nature and purpose of life itself—urgently require rethinking. Meghan O'Gieblyn tackles this challenge with philosophical rigor, intellectual reach, essayistic verve, refreshing originality, and an ironic sense of contradiction. She draws deeply and sometimes humorously from her own personal experience as a formerly religious believer still haunted by questions of faith, and she serves as the best possible guide to navigating the territory we are all entering.
Author: Jay Parini
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 054402589X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfiles Jesus Christ as the human face of God, taking into the account the multiple ways his life has been viewed and retold, and dramatizing the transformation from a man to a myth.
