In Wonder, Love and Praise
Approaches to Poetry, Theology and Philosophy
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Edited By Martin Potter, Malgorzata Grzegorzewska and Jean Ward
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.
Contents
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Małgorzata Grzegorzewska and Jean Ward
Prolegomena: The Aporias of Wonder
1. Mystics, Philosophers and Poets
Alex Villas Boas
Wonder and Desire in the Dialogue Between Theology and Literature
Rossano Zas Friz De Col, SJ
The Hermeneutical Circle: Between Mystery and Wonder in the First Spiritual Experience of Ignatius of Loyola
Cristina Bustamante
Wonder and Imagination in Ignatius of Loyola: A Study from Paul Ricoeur’s Work
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