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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Trevor Hart , Revd Dr. Jeremy Begbie , Professor Trevor Hart , Professor Roger LundinPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9781472413697ISBN 10: 1472413695 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 13 September 2013 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews'The fourteenth century poet Petrarch, in one of his letters, posed this rhetorical question: What is theology if not poetry about God? In this collection of illuminating essays, grounded in an excursus on the inevitable character of theological language as thinkers from Aquinas to Ricoeur have understood it, Trevor Hart explores with insight and verve the theological potential in verbal and visual imagery (ut picture poesis). The result is a highly stimulating contribution to reflection on the nature of theology itself as well as on its fruitful dance among the arts.'David Jeffrey, Baylor University Waco, USA 'Hart is at his best (which is very good) when he is elucidating a central Christian idea by drawing on the work of imaginative writers...anyone interested in theological aesthetics will find much to reflect on in this book.' Theology 'The fourteenth century poet Petrarch, in one of his letters, posed this rhetorical question: What is theology if not poetry about God? In this collection of illuminating essays, grounded in an excursus on the inevitable character of theological language as thinkers from Aquinas to Ricoeur have understood it, Trevor Hart explores with insight and verve the theological potential in verbal and visual imagery (ut picture poesis). The result is a highly stimulating contribution to reflection on the nature of theology itself as well as on its fruitful dance among the arts.' David Jeffrey, Baylor University Waco, USA 'This is a work of serious and profound theological reflection which takes entirely seriously - as theology itself all too often fails to do - the place of the imagination in religious thought and life. While rooted in a constant return to the Christological, it ranges over wide sea of theological themes and theologians, at the same time bringing into the conversation creative writers such from Dorothy Sayers to J.R.R. Tolkien and Shusaku Endo. The relationship between Christian theology and the arts is ever shifting and creative and Professor Hart's work is a major contribution to that on-going and lively dialogue.' David Jasper, University of Glasgow, UK Author InformationTrevor Hart is Professor of Divinity and (since 2000) Director of the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts in the University of St Andrews. Formerly Lecturer in Systematic Theology in the University of Aberdeen, he is the author and editor of numerous publications including Faith Thinking (SPCK, 2000), Regarding Karl Barth (Paternoster, 1999), Hope Against Hope (Eerdmans,1999), Tolkien, Literature and Theology (Baylor, 2007), Faithful Performances (Ashgate, 2007), and Patterns of Promise (Ashgate, 2012). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |