Gavin D'Costa, Eleanor Nesbitt, Mark Pryce

Making Nothing Happen

Five Poets Explore Faith and Spirituality

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a conversation between five poet-theologians broadly within the Christian tradition who together form The Diviners. Each poet offers a reflection on how they understand the relation between poetry and faith, rooting their reflections in their own writing, and illustrating discussion with a selection of their own poems and opening up issues for deeper exploration and reflection. This book will interest poets, theologians and all those committed to the practice and nurturing of a contemplative attitude to life in which profound attention and respect are offered to words and to the creative Word at work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9781409455158
• ISBN-10: 1409455157
• Artikelnr.: 41248821

Autorenporträt

Gavin D'Costa is Professor of Catholic Theology, at the University of Bristol. Eleanor Nesbitt, is Professor Emeritus, Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit, University of Warwick. Mark Pryce is Bishop's Adviser for Clergy Continuing Ministerial Development in Birmingham Diocese and Honorary Canon of Birmingham Cathedral. Ruth Shelton is a poet and theologian and Interim Executive Director of Emmanuel House in Nottingham, a centre for the homeless. Nicola Slee is Research Fellow at the Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, Birmingham, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword, Rowan Williams
Introduction
(W)riting like a woman: in search of a feminist theological poetics, Nicola Slee
Steady until sundown: searching for the holy, Ruth Shelton
Taking form: on becoming a Christian poet, Mark Pryce
Where poems come from: spirituality, emotion and poiesis, Eleanor Nesbitt
The miracle of poetry: divine and human creativity, Gavin D'Costa
Index.