God and Mystery in Words

Experience through Metaphor and Drama

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David Brown

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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.

Author Biography:

David Brown is Van Mildert Professor of Divinity at Durham University, and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Release date NZ

March 20th, 2008

Author

David Brown

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Pages

300

Dimensions

147x223x22

ISBN-13

9780199231836

Product ID

3065963

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