David Jones and the Craft of Theology : Becoming Beauty Hardback
by Dr Elizabeth R (Durham University, UK) Powell
Part of the T&T Clark Studies in English Theology series
Hardback
Description
This is an imaginative exploration of the art of David Jones which addresses Christian teaching through engagement with selected artistic works: a poem, a painted inscription and a wood engraving.
Elizabeth R. Powell’s study does not just enable readers to understand Jones but also to use his kind of loving attention in their own lives – which, Jones would argue, is theology’s most important task. Through close readings of material objects, Powell draws the reader into the participatory, performative and dialogical possibilities of the craft of theology.
She frames an older style of theology in a distinctive and modern way, as a graced human practice and a place of transforming relation with the divine.
Powell argues that Jones’s art works offer places of beauty in which to ‘become beauty’ along the way.
Located at the cross-section of theology, literature and the arts, this volume shows that being interdisciplinary is nothing less than finding ways for theology and humanity to be more richly itself.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:168 pages, 2 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:01/10/2020
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- ISBN:9780567691637
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:168 pages, 2 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:01/10/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9780567691637
