Francesca Bugliani Knox, David Lonsdale. Poetry and the Religious Imagination: The Power of the Word

Ashgate Publishing limited (company), 2015. — 128 p. — ISBN: 9781472426260.
What is the role of spiritual experience in poetry? What are the marks of a religious imagination? How close can the secular and the religious be brought together? How do poetic imagination and religious beliefs interact?Theeology and literature in the english-Speaking World.
Why Ÿeologians are Interested in literature: Ÿeological-literary hermeneutics in the Works of guardini, Balthasar, tillich and Kuschel.
Identifying a religious Imagination.
Dante and the Indispensability of the Image.
law and divine mercy in Shakespeare’s religious Imagination: Measure for Measure and The Merchant of Venice.
Wallace Stevens on god, Imagination and reality.
Poetry as Scripture, Poetry as Inspiration.
The Poet as Wordmaker: T.S. Eliot fnd the Religious Imagination.
Non tantum lecturi sed facturi: reading Poetry as Spiritual transformation.
Reading as active Contemplation.
Theere is a verge of the mind: Imagination and mystical gesture in Rilke’s later Poems.
The Pulse in the Wound: embodiment and grace in Denise levertov’s religious Poetry.
Images of the virgin in the late Sixteenth Century: The Catholic Devotional Poetry of henry Constable.