Cloven tongues : theology and the translation of the scriptures / Rowan Williams -- "Those are pearls" : transformation, translation, and exchange / Subha Mukherji -- How to write like God : Dante and sacramental poetics / Stephen Little -- Sacramental poetics and quasi-sacramentals / Kevin Hart -- The sacramental dilation of Richard Hooker / John Milbank -- The miracle of the Eucharist and the mysticism of the political body / Hent de Vries -- Going around metaphysics / Jean-Luc Marion -- Verbum efficax : the theopoetics of real presence / Ingolf U. Dalferth -- Dracula's sacramental prosaics and the remains of religion in modernity / Lori Branch -- The Franciscan hearts of Hopkins and Merton / Paul Mariani.
Summary:
"Distinguished theologians and literary scholars explore the workings of the sacred and the sacramental in language and literature. What does a sacramental poetics offer that secular cultural theory, for all of its advances, may have missed? How does a sacred understanding of the world differ from a strictly secular one? This volume develops the theory of "sacramental poetics" advanced by Regina Schwartz in her 2008 book on English Reformation writers, taking the theory in new directions while demonstrating how enduring and widespread this poetics is. Toward a Sacramental Poetics addresses two urgent questions we have inherited from a half century of secular critical thought. First, how do we understand the relationship between word and thing, sign and signified, other than as some naive direct representation or as a completely arbitrary language game? And, second, how can the subject experience the world beyond instrumentalizing it? The contributors conclude that a sacramental poetics responds to both questions, offering an understanding of the sign that, by pointing beyond itself, suggests wonder. The contributors explore a variety of topics in relation to sacramental poetics, including political theology, miracles, modernity, translation and transformation, and the metaphysics of love. They draw from diverse resources, from Dante to Hopkins, from Richard Hooker to Stoker's Dracula, from the King James Bible to Wallace Stevens. Toward a Sacramental Poetics is an important contribution to studies of religion and literature, the sacred and the secular, literary theory, and theologies of aesthetics. Contributors: Regina M. Schwartz, Patrick J. McGrath, Rowan Williams, Subha Mukherji, Stephen Little, Kevin Hart, John Milbank, Hent de Vries, Jean-Luc Marion, Ingolf U. Dalferth, Lori Branch, and Paul Mariani"--Provided by publisher
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