Distinguished theologians and literary scholars explore the
workings of the sacred and the sacramental in language and
literature. What does a sacramental poetics offer that secular
cultural theory, for all of its advances, may have missed? How does
a sacred understanding of the world differ from a strictly secular
one? This volume develops the theory of "sacramental poetics"
advanced by Regina Schwartz in her 2008 book on English Reformation
writers, taking the theory in new directions while demonstrating
how enduring and widespread this poetics is. Toward a Sacramental
Poetics addresses two urgent questions we have inherited from a
half century of secular critical thought. First, how do we
understand the relationship between word and thing, sign and
signified, other than as some naive direct representation or as a
completely arbitrary language game? And, second, how can the
subject experience the world beyond instrumentalizing it? The
contributors conclude that a sacramental poetics responds to both
questions, offering an understanding of the sign that, by pointing
beyond itself, suggests wonder. The contributors explore a variety
of topics in relation to sacramental poetics, including political
theology, miracles, modernity, translation and transformation, and
the metaphysics of love. They draw from diverse resources, from
Dante to Hopkins, from Richard Hooker to Stoker's Dracula, from the
King James Bible to Wallace Stevens. Toward a Sacramental Poetics
is an important contribution to studies of religion and literature,
the sacred and the secular, literary theory, and theologies of
aesthetics. Contributors: Regina M. Schwartz, Patrick J. McGrath,
Rowan Williams, Subha Mukherji, Stephen Little, Kevin Hart, John
Milbank, Hent de Vries, Jean-Luc Marion, Ingolf U. Dalferth, Lori
Branch, and Paul Mariani.
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