Art, Imagination and Christian Hope

Patterns of Promise
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-25068-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 324 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts

In hope, Christian faith reconfigures the shape of what is familiar in order to pattern the contours of God's promised future. In this process, the present is continuously re-shaped by ventures of hopeful and expectant living. In art, this same poetic interplay between past, present and future takes specific concrete forms, furnishing vital resources for sustaining an imaginative ecology of hope. This volume attends to the contributions that architecture, drama, literature, music and painting can make, as artists trace patterns of promise, resisting the finality of modernity's despairing visions and generating hopeful living in a present which, although marked by sin and death, is grasped imaginatively as already pregnant with future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hopps, Gavin

Hart, Trevor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Introduction; Time, eternity and the arts, Richard Bauckham; Patterns of hope and images of eternity: listening to Shakespeare, Blake and T.S. Eliot, Paul S. Fiddes; Space and time: eschatological dimensions of Christian architecture, A.N. Williams; Echoes of hope in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and Beethoven’s Fidelio, Daniel K.L. Chua; Brave new world? Faith, hope and the political imagination, Kirsten Deede Johnson; The unique psychology of hope, Patricia Bruininks; The challenge of a ’hopeless’ God: negotiating José Saramago’s novel The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Bruce W. Longenecker; Hoping against hope: Morrissey and the light that never goes out, Gavin Hopps; Unexpected endings: eucatastrophic consolations in literature and theology, Trevor Hart; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Trevor Hart is Professor of Divinity and Director of the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts in the University of St Andrews. He has authored and edited several books including a collection (Faithful Performances, with Steven Guthrie) for Ashgate Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts, a series for which he is an editor. Gavin Hopps is Lecturer in Literature and Theology and Associate Director of the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts in the University of St Andrews. He is author of Morrissey: The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart (Continuum, 2009) and co-edited the collection Romanticism and Religion (with Jane Stabler, Ashgate 2006). Jeremy Begbie is Thomas A. Langford Research Professor of Theology at Duke University, Durham, NC. He has authored and edited several books and is an editor for the series Ashgate Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts.