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Heaven in ordinary : poetry and religion in a secular age
- Title
- Heaven in ordinary : poetry and religion in a secular age / David Jasper.
- Author
- Jasper, David
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : The Lutterworth Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-144) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-6246
- ISBN
- 9780718895419
- 071889541X
- OCLC
- 1057680065
- Author
- Jasper, David, author.
- Title
- Heaven in ordinary : poetry and religion in a secular age / David Jasper.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : The Lutterworth Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Description
- 151 pages ; 24 cm
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-144) and index.
- Summary
- Poets, in times of great faith and times of doubt, have expressed for us their sense of both the presence and the absence of God in language that is sometimes almost sacramental in its weight of beauty, love, fear, anger or despair. The poets considered here all relate, in some way, to the traditions of Anglicanism through the centuries, reflecting both a common humanity and a wide breadth of human experience as it struggles with God. 'Heaven in Ordinary' is deliberately autobiographical in approach, as it is grounded in David Jasper's own lifetime experience of reading poetry since his school years, and over four decades as a priest. The poets he so beautifully discusses have related both positively and negatively to the Christian faith and the Anglican tradition. Some are deeply religious, others are haunted by God and the divine mystery.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-6246