/

God and Mystery in Words Experience through Metaphor and Drama

Brown, David
Innbundet / 2008 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199231836
Publisert
2008
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
488 gr
Høyde
223 mm
Bredde
147 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
300

Forfatter
Brown, David

Om bidragsyterne

David Brown is Van Mildert Professor of Divinity at Durham University, and a Fellow of the British Academy.

God and Mystery in Words Experience through Metaphor and Drama

Brown, David
Innbundet / 2008 / Engelsk
Brown, David
Innbundet / 2008 / Engelsk
Nettpris:
1.065,-
Levering 7-20 dager
Sjekk lagerstatus i butikk

Brown's observations are frequently striking and often sharp. We lurch from the first gay kiss in the television soap opera Eastenders to the symbolism of different cuts of jeans...this book is beautifully written, always thought-provoking, and displays vast, quirkily juxtapositioned erudition.

Phillip McCosker, The Tablet

A necessarily short review cannot do justice to the wide range of these two volumes, which witness to an impressive mastery of multi-faceted material, as well as Brown's ability to present it in a highly readable and engaging style...warmly commended, and it is to be hoped that others will follow where David Brown has led.

Geoffrey Brown, International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church

Brown has writtien a provocative work of sophisticated theology that, because it wears its learning so lightly, has much to offer the general reader.

Johnathan Wright Catholic Herald

Se alle

It is not possible to read a book by David Brown without being challenged, informed, and provoked to think again about received assumptions and expectations...[it is a] privilege [to be] invited to revisit familiar liturgical experiences in the company of such an engaging companion and to know them as if for the first time.

John Saxbee, Times Literary Supplement

In God and Mystery in Words David Brown uses the way in which poetry and drama have in the past opened people to the possibility of religious experience as a launch pad for advocating less wooden approaches to Christian worship today. So far from encouraging imagination and exploration, hymns and sermons now more commonly merely consolidate belief. Again, contemporary liturgy in both its music and its ceremonial fails to take seriously either current dramatic theory or the sociology of ritual. Yet this was not always so. Poetry and drama, Brown suggests, grew out of religion, and therefore that creative potential needs to be rediscovered by religion.
Les mer
In this wide-ranging book that moves from Greek drama to modern poetry, from the meaning of the Logos to the history of vestments, David Brown explores the ways in which poetry and drama in the past were rooted in religious questions. Their creative potential needs to be re-discovered, to bring present-day worship and experience of God alive.
Les mer
Introduction ; I. EXPERIENCE THROUGH METAPHOR ; 1. Logos and Mystery ; 2. Metaphor and Disclosure ; 3. Hymns and Psalms ; 4. Verbal and Visual Image ; II. EXPERIENCE THROUGH DRAMA ; 5. Drama and Religion ; 6. Enactment in Music ; 7. Performance, Costume, Staging ; Conclusion
Les mer
Brown's distinctive approach enhances religious experience in worship by considering how words foster the imagination, while drama encourages engagement Investigates the past history of words and drama in relation to religion - from Greek tragedy and kabbalistic mysticism to modern poetry and the liturgy
Les mer
David Brown is Van Mildert Professor of Divinity at Durham University, and a Fellow of the British Academy.
Brown's distinctive approach enhances religious experience in worship by considering how words foster the imagination, while drama encourages engagement Investigates the past history of words and drama in relation to religion - from Greek tragedy and kabbalistic mysticism to modern poetry and the liturgy
Les mer

Relaterte produkter

Brown's observations are frequently striking and often sharp. We lurch from the first gay kiss in the television soap opera Eastenders to the symbolism of different cuts of jeans...this book is beautifully written, always thought-provoking, and displays vast, quirkily juxtapositioned erudition.

Phillip McCosker, The Tablet

A necessarily short review cannot do justice to the wide range of these two volumes, which witness to an impressive mastery of multi-faceted material, as well as Brown's ability to present it in a highly readable and engaging style...warmly commended, and it is to be hoped that others will follow where David Brown has led.

Geoffrey Brown, International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church

Brown has writtien a provocative work of sophisticated theology that, because it wears its learning so lightly, has much to offer the general reader.

Johnathan Wright Catholic Herald

Se alle

It is not possible to read a book by David Brown without being challenged, informed, and provoked to think again about received assumptions and expectations...[it is a] privilege [to be] invited to revisit familiar liturgical experiences in the company of such an engaging companion and to know them as if for the first time.

John Saxbee, Times Literary Supplement

In God and Mystery in Words David Brown uses the way in which poetry and drama have in the past opened people to the possibility of religious experience as a launch pad for advocating less wooden approaches to Christian worship today. So far from encouraging imagination and exploration, hymns and sermons now more commonly merely consolidate belief. Again, contemporary liturgy in both its music and its ceremonial fails to take seriously either current dramatic theory or the sociology of ritual. Yet this was not always so. Poetry and drama, Brown suggests, grew out of religion, and therefore that creative potential needs to be rediscovered by religion.
Les mer
In this wide-ranging book that moves from Greek drama to modern poetry, from the meaning of the Logos to the history of vestments, David Brown explores the ways in which poetry and drama in the past were rooted in religious questions. Their creative potential needs to be re-discovered, to bring present-day worship and experience of God alive.
Les mer
Introduction ; I. EXPERIENCE THROUGH METAPHOR ; 1. Logos and Mystery ; 2. Metaphor and Disclosure ; 3. Hymns and Psalms ; 4. Verbal and Visual Image ; II. EXPERIENCE THROUGH DRAMA ; 5. Drama and Religion ; 6. Enactment in Music ; 7. Performance, Costume, Staging ; Conclusion
Les mer
Brown's distinctive approach enhances religious experience in worship by considering how words foster the imagination, while drama encourages engagement Investigates the past history of words and drama in relation to religion - from Greek tragedy and kabbalistic mysticism to modern poetry and the liturgy
Les mer
David Brown is Van Mildert Professor of Divinity at Durham University, and a Fellow of the British Academy.
Brown's distinctive approach enhances religious experience in worship by considering how words foster the imagination, while drama encourages engagement Investigates the past history of words and drama in relation to religion - from Greek tragedy and kabbalistic mysticism to modern poetry and the liturgy
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199231836
Publisert
2008
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
488 gr
Høyde
223 mm
Bredde
147 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
300

Forfatter
Brown, David

Om bidragsyterne

David Brown is Van Mildert Professor of Divinity at Durham University, and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Relaterte produkter