The Transforming Power of Prayer: From Illusion to Reality: From Illusion to Reality: The Mowbray 2011 Lent Book - Softcover

Marshall, Michael

9781441117243: The Transforming Power of Prayer: From Illusion to Reality: From Illusion to Reality: The Mowbray 2011 Lent Book

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1441117245 ISBN 13: 9781441117243

Publisher: Continuum, 2010

Current public discussion of religion is characterized by conflict and acerbity. This is due in part to the deeply antagonistic structures of religious debates: science vs religion, theism vs atheism, creationism vs evolution, and so on. This book looks to Blake's and Wordsworth's poetry for a different type of interpretive engagement with religion: one that can include rather than exclude, and creatively interrelate rather than destructively set at odds different approaches to religion. The discussion focuses on a key religious vision of each poet, and finds its way into the question of religion via the reception history of academic and popular responses to these two visions: the autobiographical, biographical, historical, mystical, psychedelic, and theological. These different interpretations reflect different facets of the visions in question, and mirror their synthesizing inclusivity. As the two poets negotiate different personal and corporate experiences of religion, their poetry achieves this inclusive form of engagement not by seeking an unworldly perspective that has transcended such debates, but by making religious vision an open meeting ground for conflicting discourses.

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Review:

'His [Marshall's] book is new wine from a seasoned cask, and deserves to be taken seriously by any Lentern reader.' --Church Times, 4th Feb 2011

'Michael Marshall's book...seems to me to be not just for Lent, but for any time, as it seeks to enable the individual to enter into that friendship with God.' --thegoodbookstall.org.uk, 7th Feb 2011

'This engaging book pleads for knowledge of... the God who is both within and beyond us.' --The Tablet

'This book is extremely bracing and will keep me well occupied during lent.' --The Times

'This is a slim volume, but big in its impact. Read it and take what it says on board. It could be life-changing.' --Church of Ireland Gazette

...a skilful interweaving of scripture, culture and contemporary experience to examine the spiritual journey that we are called to make... well presented and accessible without being patronising or simplistic. --The Pastoral Review

It s easy to get a sufeit of books on prayer but this slim item from Michael Marshall is worth adding to one s collection. --Franiciscan

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