A Music of Grace: The Sacred in Contemporary American PoetryP. Lang, 1995 - 135 sider In our mid-to-late twentieth century secular society, a most pressing theological question is, Where does the dimension of the sacred reside? The question is posed here through the poetic worlds of James Wright, Anne Sexton, and Galway Kinnell, each a winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In the midst of collapsing values, these poets express a longing for a lost world of meaning. The author shows how each attempts to re-vision and re-language the sacred without resort to traditional piety. Lawrence's process poetics and Whitehead's process theology shed light on the question of the sacred and the poetic response. |
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... given man His law . But to say that God created man in His own image makes sense only as long as we know what God is . The more diffuse our idea of God , the more difficult it is to see in Him the measure . . . . The ideal has become ...
... given man His law . But to say that God created man in His own image makes sense only as long as we know what God is . The more diffuse our idea of God , the more difficult it is to see in Him the measure . . . . The ideal has become ...
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... given himself . And he is given the earth and the creatures that inhabit it . The knowing he shares with the jay is a kind of faith : that the universe provides its creatures with a sustaining atmosphere , a supportive ground , which is ...
... given himself . And he is given the earth and the creatures that inhabit it . The knowing he shares with the jay is a kind of faith : that the universe provides its creatures with a sustaining atmosphere , a supportive ground , which is ...
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... given at King's Chapel in Boston in 1926 and published later under the title Religion in the Making , Alfred North Whitehead declared : " The modern world has lost God and is seeking him . " Like Nathan Scott , Jr. , Robert Bellah ...
... given at King's Chapel in Boston in 1926 and published later under the title Religion in the Making , Alfred North Whitehead declared : " The modern world has lost God and is seeking him . " Like Nathan Scott , Jr. , Robert Bellah ...
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actual occasion Al Poulin American Anne Sexton appropriate reverence Auschwitz Awful Rowing becomes beginning Blessing Book of Nightmares collage creative creatures D. H. Lawrence despair dimension disillusionment elicits embrace feeling Galway Kinnell healing hear heart hit bottom holy ground Houghton Mifflin human Ibid incarnate inner nature instant interdependent James Wright Kinnell's language Lawrence's listening litany loneliness Lost My Sons Martins Ferry Mary Bly Matthew Fox modern mortal lives music of grace mystery Nathan Scott night occasion of experience oneself outer panentheism perfect perspective poet poet's poetic worlds poetry prayer of longing present Process and Reality process of assemblage process theology quick reality realized relationship Religion responsive intuition sacrament sacred reside self-restoring sense sheer appreciation sheer receptivity Sickness unto Death silence singing of mortal society spirit Things I Tell traditional University Press utterance vision voice water-lily Whitehead Whitman Wild Prayer words writes York