God and Mystery in Words: Experience Through Metaphor and Drama - Softcover

Brown, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199599971 ISBN 13: 9780199599974

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2011

Synopsis

In this wide-ranging book that moves from Greek drama to modern poetry, from the meaning of the Logos to the history of vestments, David Brown explores the ways in which poetry and drama in the past were rooted in religious questions. Their creative potential needs to be re-discovered, to bring present-day worship and experience of God alive.

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Review:

Brown's observations are frequently striking and often sharp...this book is beautifully written, always thought-provoking, and displays vast, quirkily juxtapositioned erudition. (Phillip McCosker, The Tablet)

A necessarily short review cannot do justice to the wide range of these two volumes, which witness to an impressive mastery of multi-faceted material, as well as Brown's ability to present it in a highly readable and engaging style...warmly commended, and it is to be hoped that others will follow where David Brown has led. (Geoffrey Brown, International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church)

Brown has written a provocative work of sophisticated theology that, because it wears its learning so lightly, has much to offer the general reader. (Jonathan Wright Catholic Herald)

It is not possible to read a book by David Brown without being challenged, informed, and provoked to think again about received assumptions and expectations...[it is a] privilege [to be] invited to revisit familiar liturgical experiences in the company of such an engaging companion and to know them as if for the first time. (John Saxbee, Times Literary Supplement)

About the Author:

David Brown is Van Mildert Professor of Divinity at Durham University, and a Fellow of the British Academy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0199599971
• ISBN 13: 9780199599974
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298