David Jones and the Craft of Theology - Becoming Beauty

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Powell is La Retraite Fellow in Theology and Spirituality at Durham University, UK. Zusammenfassung This is an imaginative exploration of the art of David Jones which addresses Christian teaching through engagement with selected artistic works: a poem, a painted inscription and a wood engraving. Elizabeth R. Powell’s study does not just enable readers to understand Jones but also to use his kind of loving attention in their own lives – which, Jones would argue, is theology’s most important task.Through close readings of material objects, Powell draws the reader into the participatory, performative and dialogical possibilities of the craft of theology. She frames an older style of theology in a distinctive and modern way, as a graced human practice and a place of transforming relation with the divine. Powell argues that Jones’s art works offer places of beauty in which to ‘become beauty’ along the way. Located at the cross-section of theology, literature and the arts, this volume shows that being interdisciplinary is nothing less than finding ways for theology and humanity to be more richly itself. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction1. The Quest for Sacrament: ‘A, a, a, DOMINE DEUS’ Poem2. The Art of the Incarnate Word: ‘Quia per Incarnati’ Painted Inscription3. ‘The Vessel of the Ecclesia’: ‘Bride’ Wood EngravingConclusion Index

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Powell, Elizabeth R Powell
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2020
• EAN: 9780567691637
• ISBN: 978-0-567-69163-7
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: T&T Clark Studies in English Theology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; RELIGION / Theology, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets