What are the poetics of everyday life? What can they teach us about
God? Art, music, dance, and writing can certainly be poetic, but so
can such diverse pastimes as fishing, skiing, or attending sports
events. Any and all activities that satisfy our fundamental need
for play, for celebration, and for ritual, says William Dyrness,
are inherently poetic and in Poetic Theology he demonstrates that
all such activities are places where God is active in the world.
All of humanitys creative efforts, Dyrness points out, testify to
our intrinsic longing for joy and delight and our deep desire to
connect with others, with the created order, and especially with
the Creator. This desire is rooted in the presence and calling of
God in and through the good creation. With extensive reflection on
aesthetics in spirituality, worship, and community development,
Dyrnesss Poetic Theology will be useful for all who seek fresh and
powerful new ways to communicate the gospel in contemporary
society. William Dyrnesss bold invitation to a poetic theology
shaped by Scripture, tradition, and imagination one luring us
toward a fuller participation in beauty than argument or concept
alone allow reminds us that truth itself is beautiful to behold and
poetic to the core. . . . If poetry is in its deepest reflex an
intensification of life, then Dyrnesss call for a poetic theology
is one we ignore at our peril, reminding us that faithful living is
not only about proper thinking but also and, perhaps, more properly
about the texture of our living and the quality of our loving. Mark
S. Burrows Andover Newton Theological School Makes a strong case
for aesthetics as one of the avenues used by God to draw human
beings near to him and his glory. . . . A wonderful journey through
Reformed spirituality and a wake-up call for Reformed theology.
Cornelius van der Kooi Free University, Amsterdam
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