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Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Religious & spiritual
Succeeding Ronald Blythe's Word From Wormingford, one of the most
beloved columns in contemporary journalism, was always going to be
a formidable challenge for any writer. Yet the new occupier of the
back page slot of the Church Times, the priest-poet Malcolm Guite,
immediately gained the affections and loyalty of a discerning
audience accustomed to literary excellence. His lucid, perceptive
and imaginative musings follow a similar pattern to the sonnets for
which he is so renowned. In his own words, he treats these 500 word
essays 'a little in the spirit of the sonnet, with a sense of
development, of a 'turn' or volta part way through, and a sense
that the end revisits and re-reads the opening'. These draw
together everyday events and encounters, landscape, journeys,
poetry, stories, memory and a sense of the sacred, and fuses them
to create richly satisfying portraits of the familiar that at the
same time opens a doorway in to a new and enchanted world.
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Building Bridges
(Hardcover)
Kendra Weddle, Jann Aldredge-Clanton
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R1,055
R893
Discovery Miles 8 930
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JosE MartI's Liberative Political Theology argues that MartI's
religious views, which at first glance might appear outdated and
irrelevant, are actually critical to understanding his social
vision. During a time where the predominate philosophical view was
materialistic (Darwin, Marx) MartI sought to reconcile social and
political trends with the metaphysical, believing that ignoring the
spiritual would create a soulless approach toward achieving a
liberative society. As such, MartI used religious concepts and
ideas as a tool that could bring forth a more just social order. In
short, this book argues MartI could be considered a precursor to
what would come to be called, Liberation Theology.Miguel De La
Torre has authored the most comprehensive text written thus far
concerning MartI's religious views and how they impacted his
political thought. The few similar texts that exist are written in
Spanish; and among those, mainly romanticize MartI's spirituality
in an attempt of portraying him as a 'Christian believer.' Only a
handful provide an academic investigation of MartI's theological
thought based solely on his writings, and those concentrate on just
one aspect of MartI's religious influences. JosE MartI's Liberative
Political Theology allows for mutual influence between MartI's
political and religious views rather than assuming one had
precedence over the other.
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