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Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism : When God Left the World.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultural memory in the presentPublication details: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (167 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780804779555
  • 0804779554
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism : When God Left the World.DDC classification:
  • 820.9/3823
LOC classification:
  • PR545
Other classification:
  • HI 1151
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Epigraph; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I -- POESIA MYSTICA; PART II -- JUSTITIA MYSTICA; PART III -- AMOR MYSTICUS; Afterword; REFERENCE MATTER; Notes; Index; Cultural Memory in the Present; 1 -- Sacramental Poetics; 2 -- Mystical and Political Bodies; 3 -- Shakespeare's Tragic Mass: Craving Justice; 4 -- Milton's Cosmic Body: Doing Justice; 5 -- Donne in Love: Communion of the Flesh; 6 -- Herbert's Praise: Communion in Conversation; The Eucharist; Idolatry: Images and Imagination; Sacrifice and Murder; Othello and Justice; Paradisal Communion.
Unspeakable SalvationResurrecting Love; Mystical Poetry and Theology; The Theology of Conversation; "Love III."
Summary: This book explores the movement from a world of sacraments to the "sacramental," in which the impulses once met by sacred ritual are displaced onto wider cultural forms, a poetics that becomes the province of mystery.
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Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Epigraph; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I -- POESIA MYSTICA; PART II -- JUSTITIA MYSTICA; PART III -- AMOR MYSTICUS; Afterword; REFERENCE MATTER; Notes; Index; Cultural Memory in the Present; 1 -- Sacramental Poetics; 2 -- Mystical and Political Bodies; 3 -- Shakespeare's Tragic Mass: Craving Justice; 4 -- Milton's Cosmic Body: Doing Justice; 5 -- Donne in Love: Communion of the Flesh; 6 -- Herbert's Praise: Communion in Conversation; The Eucharist; Idolatry: Images and Imagination; Sacrifice and Murder; Othello and Justice; Paradisal Communion.

Unspeakable SalvationResurrecting Love; Mystical Poetry and Theology; The Theology of Conversation; "Love III."

This book explores the movement from a world of sacraments to the "sacramental," in which the impulses once met by sacred ritual are displaced onto wider cultural forms, a poetics that becomes the province of mystery.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-177) and index.

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