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God and Mystery in Words: Experience through Metaphor and Drama

By David Brown

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2008
ISBN
0199231834, 9780199231836
LCC
BR115.A8 B76 2008
Google Books ID
LeodN4QUgkC
Open Library ID
OL16993262M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
902 kB (923648 bytes)
Pages
299\0
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

In God and Mystery in Words, David Brown uses the way in which poetry and drama have in the past opened people to the possibility of religious experience as a launch pad for advocating less wooden approaches to Christian worship today. So far, from encouraging imagination and exploration, hymns and sermons now more commonly merely consolidate belief. Again, contemporary liturgy in both its music and its ceremonial fails to take seriously either current dramatic theory or the sociology of ritual. Yet this was not always so. Poetry and drama, Brown suggests, grew out of religion, and therefore that creative potential needs to be rediscovered by religion.

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