Christian Poetry in America Since 1940
Christian Poetry in America Since 1940

Author: Micah Mattix

Publisher: Paraclete Press

Published: 2022-09-06

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1640607242

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Winner of the 2023 Christianity Book Award — Culture & The Arts! "One of the best, and least expected, anthologies in decades.” —Joseph Bottum, Poetry editor, New York Sun Showcasing thirty-five American poets born in or after 1940, this anthology confirms that one of the most vibrant developments in contemporary verse has been a renewed engagement with the Christian faith. Across a full spectrum of Christian belief, including the struggle to believe at all, these poets bring the power of their art to bear on serious questions: how to understand the goodness of God in a fallen and tragic world, how to reconcile universal truths with the particularities of human experience, how to render familiar events of salvation history in new language that generates its own epiphanies. As Christian engagement assumes a multiplicity of modes and voices, so does contemporary poetry in America. This volume, then, selective yet representative, features the work of early-, mid-, and late-career poets, formalists, free-verse poets, and experimenters in prosody. This anthology bears witness to the poetic mind as it seeks that which is above.

Doxology 33.3
Doxology 33.3

Author: Joshua Parks

Publisher: OSL Publications

Published: 2022-10-18

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13:

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Doxology: a journal of worship and the sacramental life, Volume 33.2 (Pentecost 2022) Founded in 1984, Doxology: a journal of worship and the sacramental life is a quarterly, peer reviewed journal published by the Order of Saint Luke (OSL Publications). It focuses on emerging and historical theologies and practices of Christian worship. Print distribution is to the members of the Order globally, as well as to a number of theology departments and seminary libraries in the United States. Doxology also continues the tradition of the journal Sacramental Life, which merged with Doxology in 2020.

Before the Door of God
Before the Door of God

Author: Jay Hopler

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2013-11-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780300175202

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Before the Door of God traces the development of devotional English-language poetry from its origins in ancient hymnody to its current twenty-first-century incarnations. The poems in this volume demonstrate not only that devotional poetry—poetry that speaks to the divine—remains in vigorous practice, but also that the tradition reaches back to the very origins of poetry in English. There is a sense in these pages that the tradition of lyric poetry that developed was nearly inevitable, given the inherent concerns of the genre. Featuring the work of poets over a three-thousand-year period, Before the Door of God places the devotional lyric in its cultural, historical, and aesthetic contexts. The volume traces the various influences on this tradition and identifies features that persist in devotional lyric poetry across centuries, cultures, and stylistic differences. To scholars, literary professionals, and general readers who find delight in fine poetry, this anthology offers much to contemplate and discuss.

Ponds
Ponds

Author: J. C. Scharl

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2024-04-01

Total Pages: 87

ISBN-13:

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In Ponds, Jane Clark Scharl explores the mysterious relationship between change and repetition: seemingly contradictory, these two weave together so tightly in human existence that they cannot be separated. Speaking in a variety of voices—from a young mother mourning her own mother to Penelope, wife of Ulysses, Persephone, and Theoderic the Ostrogoth—Ponds is a polyphonous meditation on loss and gain, activity and stillness, and the nature of God, both hidden and revealed.

Hear Ye the Word of the Lord
Hear Ye the Word of the Lord

Author: D. Brent Sandy

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2024-03-12

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 151400299X

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In today's reading culture, it is easy to forget that we receive God's message far differently from how the original hearers would have heard it. D. Brent Sandy explores how oral communication shaped biblical writers and ancient hearers, and provides constructive ways for modern readers to be better hearers and performers of Scripture.

The Christian Book of Mystical Verse
The Christian Book of Mystical Verse

Author: A. W. Tozer

Publisher: Moody Publishers

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1600669050

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"... some of the best devotional verse the English language affords..." While the term "mystic" may have connotations that reach beyond traditional Christian thinking, it actually refers to a common spiritual experience that unites anyone who has fellowship with God. The poems in this book were hand-picked by Tozer and follow a logical pattern, going in line with the very nature of salvation itself and the death of Jesus on the cross, man's contemplation of his own sin, redemption, communion with God, awaiting the return of Christ, and celebrations of eternal fellowship with God in Heaven. Both intimate and exhilarating, The Christian Book of Mystical Verse is a book for anyone who seeks to worship God the Father, and who finds the rich language of Christians of old a great help in that endeavor.

A Sacrifice of Praise
A Sacrifice of Praise

Author: James H. Trott

Publisher: Cumberland House

Published: 2006-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781630269975

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English speakers have 12 centuries of Christian poetry to draw upon. The examples in this anthology come from all Christian sources including Anglican, Roman Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox and modern evangelical and reform traditions.

The Soul Is a Stranger in This World
The Soul Is a Stranger in This World

Author: Micah Mattix

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2020-01-07

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1532660170

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The Soul Is a Stranger in This World is a timely examination of some of the best modern and contemporary poets and a trenchant defense of poetry as a narrative, musical, and theological art. While it is common today to view the poet as a revolutionary, who breaks old forms in the name of aesthetic and political freedom, this volume begins with the classical view of the poet "as a man speaking to men," as Wordsworth put it. Poetry may challenge and shock, but it also consoles, probing the contours of the human soul in a broken world. Collected from essays and reviews first published in The Wall Street Journal, The New Criterion, Books and Culture, First Things, and other outlets, the volume traces these concerns in the work of modern masters such as Rilke and Eliot, avant-garde exemplars like Andre du Bouchet and Basil Bunting, and contemporary writers such as Dana Gioia and Franz Wright.

Critical Bibliography of Religion in America, Volume IV, parts 3, 4, and 5
Critical Bibliography of Religion in America, Volume IV, parts 3, 4, and 5

Author: Nelson Rollin Burr

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 694

ISBN-13: 1400880017

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Volume IV (bound as two volumes) provides a critical and descriptive bibliography of religion in American life that is unequalled in any other source. Arranged topically, so that books and articles on a single subject are discussed in relation to each other, and carefully cross-referenced and indexed, it will be an indispensable tool for anyone exploring further into American religion or related subjects. Originally published in 1961. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.