Poetic theology : God and the poetics of everyday life /

Dyrness, William A.

Poetic theology : God and the poetics of everyday life / William A. Dyrness. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2011. - xiii, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-326) and index.

Prelude to aesthetic theology: theological reflections on love, desire, and the affections -- The historical model: theologia poetica -- Poetic stewardship of life -- Re-reading the nineteenth-century Romantic heritage -- Twentieth-century aesthetics: in search of a theological voice -- Dante, Bunyan, and the search for a Protestant aesthetics -- Calvin, the locked church, and the recovery of contemplation -- The aesthetics of church -- Aesthetics and social transformation -- Living and reflecting poetically: systematic implications.

9780802865786 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2010040494


Aesthetics--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Theology--Methodology.
Poetry--Religious aspects--Christianity.

BR115.A8 D97 2011 / 16943

261.5/7

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