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Being deified : poetry and fantasy on the path to God / David Russell Mosley.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Emerging scholarsPublication details: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2016.Description: lxi, 233 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1506410820
  • 9781506410821
  • 9781506410814 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BR118 .E44 M67 2016
Contents:
Stanza 1. Poet and poem: God, creation, and humanity. 1. Before "In the beginning," or "In the beginning God"; the God who is poet and theo-poet -- 2. The poem days 1-5: the stage for deification -- 3. The poem day 6: humanity, the deified -- Stanza II. Pride, evil, and distorted vision. 4. The pride of the poem: auto-deification, distorted sight, and privative evil -- 5. Distorted eyesight and a corrupted cosmos -- Stanza III. The poet enters the poem: incarnation, deification, and a restoration of vision. --Stanza IV. Participating in the poem: sacraments, liturgy, and human creativity. 7. Participating in the poem: sacramental ontology -- 8. Participating in the poem and theo-poem: human creativity and examples from poetry and fantasy.
Summary: Being deified examines the importance of deification to Christian theology and the place of human creativity in deification. This volume utilizes the work of fantasy writers and poets in order to show the importance of these genres for theology in general and for their importance in human deification.
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Joshua & Timothy School of Theology Library (JTSOT) General Circulation Non-fiction BR118 .E44 M67 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not For Loan 065911
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Includes bibliographical resources (pages 217-228) and index.

Stanza 1. Poet and poem: God, creation, and humanity. 1. Before "In the beginning," or "In the beginning God"; the God who is poet and theo-poet -- 2. The poem days 1-5: the stage for deification -- 3. The poem day 6: humanity, the deified -- Stanza II. Pride, evil, and distorted vision. 4. The pride of the poem: auto-deification, distorted sight, and privative evil -- 5. Distorted eyesight and a corrupted cosmos -- Stanza III. The poet enters the poem: incarnation, deification, and a restoration of vision. --Stanza IV. Participating in the poem: sacraments, liturgy, and human creativity. 7. Participating in the poem: sacramental ontology -- 8. Participating in the poem and theo-poem: human creativity and examples from poetry and fantasy.

Being deified examines the importance of deification to Christian theology and the place of human creativity in deification. This volume utilizes the work of fantasy writers and poets in order to show the importance of these genres for theology in general and for their importance in human deification.

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