God and mystery in words : experience through metaphor and drama / David Brown.

By: Brown, David, 1948 July 1-

Contributor(s): Oxford University Press

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008Description: 288 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780199231836 (hbk : alk. paper); 0199231834 (hbk : alk. paper); 9780191716201 (ebook); 0-19-152828-5Other title: God & mystery in words [Spine title]Subject(s): Christianity and the arts | Poetry -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Religion and drama | WorshipDDC classification: 261.5/7 LOC classification: BR115.A8 | B76 2008Online resources: Table of contents only

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; I. Experience through Metaphor; 1. Logos and Mystery; 2. Metaphor and Disclosure; 3. Hymns and Psalms; 4. Verbal and Visual Images; II. Experience through Drama; 5. Drama and Religion; 6. Enactment in Music; 7. Performance, Costume, Staging; Conclusion; Index

Summary: In God and Mystery in Words David Brown uses the way in which poetry and drama have in the past opened people to the possibility of religious experience as a launch pad for advocating less wooden approaches to Christian worship today. So far from encouraging imagination and exploration, hymns and sermons now more commonly merely consolidate belief. Again, contemporary liturgy in both its music and its ceremonial fails to take seriously either current dramatic theory or the sociology of ritual. Yet this was not always so. Poetry and drama, Brown suggests, grew out of religion

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

In God and Mystery in Words David Brown uses the way in which poetry and drama have in the past opened people to the possibility of religious experience as a launch pad for advocating less wooden approaches to Christian worship today. So far from encouraging imagination and exploration, hymns and sermons now more commonly merely consolidate belief. Again, contemporary liturgy in both its music and its ceremonial fails to take seriously either current dramatic theory or the sociology of ritual. Yet this was not always so. Poetry and drama, Brown suggests, grew out of religion

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