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Poetry and Apocalypse: Theological Disclosures of Poetic Language

By William Franke

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9780804779739
DOI
10.1515/9780804779739
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1466392 bytes)
Pages
232\222
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 21:46:34

Description

In Poetry and Apocalypse, Franke seeks to find the premises for dialogue between cultures, especially religious fundamentalisms—including Islamic fundamentalism—and modern Western secularism. He argues that in order to be genuinely open, dialogue needs to accept possibilities such as religious apocalypse in ways that can be best understood through the experience of poetry. Franke reads Christian epic and prophetic tradition as a secularization of religious revelation that preserves an understanding of the essentially apocalyptic character of truth and its disclosure in history. The usually neglected negative theology that undergirds this apocalyptic tradition provides the key to a radically new view of apocalypse as at once religious and poetic.

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