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The seventeenth-century poet and divine Thomas Traherne finds
innocence in every stage of existence. He finds it in the chaos at
the origins of creation as well as in the blessed order of Eden. He
finds it in the activities of grace and the hope of glory, but also
in the trials of misery and even in the abyss of the Fall.
Boundless Innocence in Thomas Traherne's Poetic Theology traces
innocence through Traherne's works as it transgresses the
boundaries of the estates of the soul. Using grammatical and
literary categories it explores various aspects of his poetic
theology of innocence, uncovering the boundless desire which is
embodied in the yearning cry: 'Were all Men Wise and Innocent...'
Recovering and reinterpreting a key but increasingly neglected
theme in Traherne's poetic theology, this book addresses
fundamental misconceptions of the meaning of innocence in his work.
Through a contextual and theological approach, it indicates the
unexplored richness, complexity and diversity of this theme in the
history of literature and theology.
New essays on Thomas Traherne challenge traditional critical
readings of the poet. Thomas Traherne has all too often been
defined and studied as a solitary thinker, "out of his time", and
not as a participant in the complex intellectual currents of the
period. The essays collected here take issue with this reading,
placing Traherne firmly in his historical context and situating his
work within broader issues in seventeenth-century studies and the
history of ideas. They draw on recently published textual
discoveries alongside manuscripts which will soon be published for
the first time. They address major themes in Traherne studies,
including Traherne's understanding of matter and spirit, his
attitude towards happiness and holiness, his response to solitude
and society, and his Anglican identity. As a whole, the volume aims
to re-ignite discussion on settled readings of Traherne's work, to
reconsider issues in Traherne scholarship which have long lain
dormant, and to supplement our picture of the man and his writings
through new discoveries and insights. Elizabeth S. Dodd is
programme leader for the MA in theology, ministry and mission and
lecturer in theology, imagination and culture at Sarum College,
Salisbury; Cassandra Gorman is lecturer in English at Trinity
College, Cambridge. Contributors: Jacob Blevins, Warren Chernaik,
Phoebe Dickerson, Elizabeth S. Dodd, Ana Elena Gonzalez-Trevino,
Cassandra Gorman, Carol Ann Johnston, Alison Kershaw, Kathryn
Murphy
The seventeenth-century poet and divine Thomas Traherne finds
innocence in every stage of existence. He finds it in the chaos at
the origins of creation as well as in the blessed order of Eden. He
finds it in the activities of grace and the hope of glory, but also
in the trials of misery and even in the abyss of the Fall.
Boundless Innocence in Thomas Traherne's Poetic Theology traces
innocence through Traherne's works as it transgresses the
boundaries of the estates of the soul. Using grammatical and
literary categories it explores various aspects of his poetic
theology of innocence, uncovering the boundless desire which is
embodied in the yearning cry: 'Were all Men Wise and Innocent...'
Recovering and reinterpreting a key but increasingly neglected
theme in Traherne's poetic theology, this book addresses
fundamental misconceptions of the meaning of innocence in his work.
Through a contextual and theological approach, it indicates the
unexplored richness, complexity and diversity of this theme in the
history of literature and theology.
Elizabeth S. Dodd explores how the lyric voice in English theology
has spoken to, within and between church, self and society. By
examining a number of texts by authors such as Lancelot Andrewes,
William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as well as T. S. Elliot and
Geoffrey Hill, Dodd concludes that lyric is a vehicle for the
imagination; which is the engine of theological thought, but it
also has practical, ethical and public implications. In
contemporary discussions of genre in theological aesthetics, as in
the work of Charles Taylor, David Ford, Ben Quash, Kevin Vanhoozer
and Sam Wells, lyric is the poor relation to narrative and drama.
Lyric is the voice of soliloquy, the language of emotion and
spiritual experience, and is quickly identified with the solipsism
and egoism of the modern individual. However, lyric has been a
strong voice within English theology, and not only in a
navel-gazing fostering of private spirituality. Through a
comparative analysis of these lyric movements within English
theology, this book reassesses the role of lyric in theological
language, and suggests that it take its place alongside narrative
and drama.
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