God and Mystery in Words
Experience through Metaphor and Drama
Seiten
2011
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-959997-4 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-959997-4 (ISBN)
In this wide-ranging book that moves from Greek drama to modern poetry, from the meaning of the Logos to the history of vestments, David Brown explores the ways in which poetry and drama in the past were rooted in religious questions. Their creative potential needs to be re-discovered, to bring present-day worship and experience of God alive.
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. Imagery and hymns mattered, liturgial msic encouraged a sense of drama, sermons required rhetoric. In a characteristically stimulatling and inspiringly expansive study, that ranges from ancient Greek drama to modern poetry, from the meaning of the Logos to the history of vestments, David Brown pleads for a much wider focus on the kind of factors that aid experience of God.
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. Imagery and hymns mattered, liturgial msic encouraged a sense of drama, sermons required rhetoric. In a characteristically stimulatling and inspiringly expansive study, that ranges from ancient Greek drama to modern poetry, from the meaning of the Logos to the history of vestments, David Brown pleads for a much wider focus on the kind of factors that aid experience of God.
David Brown is Van Mildert Professor of Divinity at Durham University, and a Fellow of the British Academy.
Introduction ; I. EXPERIENCE THROUGH METAPHOR ; 1. Logos and Mystery ; 2. Metaphor and Disclosure ; 3. Hymns and Psalms ; 4. Verbal and Visual Image ; II. EXPERIENCE THROUGH DRAMA ; 5. Drama and Religion ; 6. Enactment in Music ; 7. Performance, Costume, Staging ; Conclusion
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.2.2011 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 137 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 376 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Liturgik / Homiletik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-959997-1 / 0199599971 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-959997-4 / 9780199599974 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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