- Paperback: 162 pages
- Publisher: SCM Press; New edition edition (1 Jan 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0334028965
- ISBN-13: 978-0334028963
- Product Dimensions: 2 x 1.3 x 0.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 725,139 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Rainer Maria Rilke, Gabriel Garcia Marques, Emily Dickinson, Albert Camus, Sigmund Freud and the "Tao Te Ching" are just some of the influences on this remarkable and beautiful book, which brings poetry - the language of what it is not possible to say - to bear on theology, in such a way that it changed the author's life. Suddenly, like Lewis Carroll's Alice, Alves found himself going through the looking glass and discovering how words cannot be marshalled into conventional forms but are rather like wild birds flapping their wings refusing to be caged. In delivering the 1990 Edward Cadbury Lectures, on which the book is based, the author entered a world like that of M C Escher, many of whose enigmatic illustrations are included in the text, where all one's familiar dimensions are turned inside out. Here theology goes hand in hand with story and poetry, and creates an unforgettable atmosphere of wonder and vision - as when, for example, through the magic of Isak Dinesan's "Babette's Feast", Alves evokes a picture of 'words which are good to be eaten' - which in turn leads to a profound meditation on politcs, prophecy and the theme of resurrection.
About the Author
Rubem A Alves is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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This extraordinary book of poetic theology/philosophy was given to me at Christmas 2011 by someone who herself received it as a gift. I will continue giving this book to friends. I will also read it again soon myself. The writer distils a lifetime of study, thought (and, I think, prayer) into a book which helps us to take fresh looks at old truths about humanity and the Judaeo-Christian story. As a person (and parish priest) who has always enjoyed looking at texts and hearing stories obliquely, and who resists the boring and destructive march of fundamentalism in whatever form, here was a book to speak to the heart as well as the mind, to tell the story and find it retold in so many people and places.
Martin, Birmingham
Martin, Birmingham
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