TY  - BOOK
AU  - Martin Potter
AU  - Malgorzata Grzegorzewska
AU  - Jean Ward
PY  - 2019
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2364-2882
SN  - 9783631778494
TI  - In Wonder, Love and Praise
T2  - Approaches to Poetry, Theology and Philosophy
DO  - 10.3726/b15553
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1068737
N2  - This collection of essays explores poetry’s contribution to the expression of theological wonder, which can occur both in ordinary life and in the natural world or can arise in the context of explicitly supernatural mystical experience. Poets have a special role in capturing religious awe in ways beyond the power of discursive language. Some essays in this book approach the subject on a theoretical level, working with theology, philosophy and literary criticism. Others provide close readings of poems in which the engagement with a variously understood idea or experience of wonder is prominent, from the English-language tradition and outside it. Poets from culturally and historically different backgrounds are thus drawn together through the focus on the meaning of wonder.
KW  - epiphany, burning bush, awe, enchantment/disenchantment, curiosity, the ordinary, the commonplace, amazement, transformation
LA  - English
ER  -