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Being Deified : Poetry and Fantasy on the Path to God /
Being Deified examines the importance of deification to Christian theology and the place of human creativity in deification. Deification is an explanatory force for the major categories of Christian theology: creation, fall, incarnation, theological anthropology, as well as the sacraments. Deificati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2016
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| Colección: | Emerging scholars.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Deification and creativity : a prelude
- 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
- 6. 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
- Deification and creativity : a postlude.