Faith, Hope and Poetry (Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts)

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Faith, Hope and Poetry explores the poetic imagination as some way of knowing; some way of seeing reality more clearly. Presenting a series of crucial appreciations of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon times to the current day, Malcolm Guite applies the insights of poetry to recent issues and the contribution poetry can make to our religious knowing and the way in which we ‘do theology’. This book isn’t solely focused on overtly religious poetry, but attends to the paradoxical ways during which the poetry of doubt and despair also enriches theology. Developing an original analysis and application of the poetic vision of Coleridge, Larkin and Seamus Heaney within the final chapters, Guite builds towards a substantial theology of imagination and provides unique insights into truth that complement and enrich more strictly rational ways of knowing. Readers of this book will return to their reading of poetry equipped with new insights and enthusiasm and will probably be challenged to integrate imaginative ways of knowing into their other academic and intellectual pursuits.

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