The Poets and the Fathers (eBook)

Theology and Poetry from Gregory Nazianzus to Scott Cairns

Timothy E. G. Bartel (Autor)

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2024
128 Seiten
Wipf and Stock Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-6667-8792-4 (ISBN)

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Christian poetry was born at the crossroads of the Greek, Hebrew, Roman, and Syrian cultures of late antiquity. Pioneered by poets like Ephrem the Syrian, Gregory Nazianzus, and Prudentius, a uniquely Christian poetry--and poetics--has flourished across history into the twenty-first century. In this series of essays, poet and literary scholar Timothy E. G. Bartel explores the often-overlooked genesis of Christian poetry in the fourth century AD, with a special emphasis on the poetics and cultural-theological vision of St. Gregory Nazianzus. Bartel then traces the influence of the inventors of Christian poetry to poets of more recent centuries, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, and Scott Cairns. It is in these poets of the last three centuries that we see the continual outworking of the ancient Christian poetic project and a blueprint for the future of a literature that continues to learn from the church fathers and the theological traditions of Christianity.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.1.2024
• Verlagsort: Eugene
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Schlagworte: American poetry • British Poetry • Christian Church • Christian Churches • Christianity and Literature • Christian poetry • Church Fathers • Comparative Literature • Denominations • Early • early church literature • English • Fathers of the Church • GregoryNazianzus • groups • History • History and Criticism • History of Religion • Literary criticism • Literature: history and criticism • Poetry • Religion • Religion and beliefs • subjects and themes • Theology • The Poets and the Fathers • Timothy E. G. Bartel • T.S.Eliot
• ISBN-10: 1-6667-8792-2 / 1666787922
• ISBN-13: 978-1-6667-8792-4 / 9781666787924