God and Mystery in Words
Experience through Metaphor and Drama
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 March 2008
- ISBN 9780199231836
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages300 pages
- Size 223x147x22 mm
- Weight 488 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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.
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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
I. Experience through Metaphor
Logos and Mystery
Metaphor and Disclosure
Hymns and Psalms
Verbal and Visual Image
II. Experience through Drama
Drama and Religion
Enactment in Music
Performance, Costume, Staging
Conclusion
