Table of Contents: Poetry and the religious imagination :

Other Authors:	Bugliani Knox, Francesca,
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Subjects:	Religion and poetry. Imagination > Religious aspects. Religion in literature. Spirituality in literature. Experience (Religion) in literature.
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=11011398

Table of Contents:

Theology and literature in context. Theology and literature in the English-speaking world / Michael Kirwan; Why theologians are interested in literature: theological-literary hermeneutics in the works of Guardini, Von Balthasar, Tillich and Kuschel / Georg Langenhorst
The religious imagination: from Thomas Aquinas to Wallace Stevens. Identifying a religious imagination / Michael Paul Gallagher; Religious imagination and poetic audacity in Thomas Aquinas / Olivier-Thomas Venard; Dante and the indispensability of the image / John Took; Law and divine mercy in Shakespeare's religious imagination: Measure for measure and The merchant of Venice / Paul S. Fiddes; Wallace Stevens on God, imagination and reality /John McDade
Inspiration: poetry and poetry reading. Poetry as scripture, poetry as inspiration / Jay Parini
The poet as "worldmaker": T.S. Eliot and the religious imagination / Dominic Griffiths
Non tantum lecturi sed facturi: reading poetry as spiritual transformation / Antonio Dpadaro; Reading as active contemplation / Jennifer Reek
Poets and spiritual experience: mystical gestures. "There is a verge of the mind": imagination and mystical gesture in Rilke's later poems / Mark S. Burrows; "The pulse in the wound": embodiment and grace in Denise Levertov's religious poetry / Sarah Law
Poetry, religious imagination and religious belief. Images of the virgin in the late sixteenth century: the Catholic devotional poetry of Henry Constable / Lilla Grindlay.