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Lyric Theology - Art and the Doctrine of Creation (Hardcover)
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Lyric Theology - Art and the Doctrine of Creation (Hardcover)
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Art is an outworking of God's creative process, a tangible
participation in the shaping of the world. Through our artistic
endeavors, we both express our understanding of creation and imbue
that creation with new meaning. Four artists in particular-the poet
Czeslaw Milosz, filmmaker Terrence Malick, novelist Marilynne
Robinson, and lyric essayist Annie Dillard-actively wrestle with a
world that reflects God's glory while remaining at times deeply and
troublingly obscure. In Lyric Theology, Thomas Gardner unfolds the
ways these four important contemporary figures, drawing on modes of
thinking rooted in lyric poetry, explore what the world looks like
when seen as created and received as a gift. Lyric thinking, he
argues, dramatizes a mind and spirit reaching toward a beauty and
complexity that can never be fully grasped but yet can be lifted up
in praise and wonder, bafflement and song. The specific lyric
responses on display here- resisting meaninglessness, wrestling
with contrary impulses to both celebrate and turn away, embracing
as revelatory the failure to see fully, and redeeming the world by
lifting its particulars into song-can be seen as acts of
theological thinking, deepening and extending the doctrine of
creation by living out its implications in the world. If the world
were created out of nothing save the desire to extend the love
expressed within the Trinity to creatures who might reflect it back
in wonder and praise, lyric ways of making sense of the
world-breaking free of straightforward conceptualization and
argument and exploring inward, nuanced, and continually made and
remade responses to the world's particulars-bring this idea forward
as a living thing. Drawing on his own work as a literary scholar
and a lyric essayist, Gardner here gives us the tools to both
understand and join in performing creative theological explorations
of great subtlety, beauty, and originality.
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