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David Jones and the Craft of Theology: Becoming Beauty (T and T Clark Studies in English Theology)
Author: Elizabeth Powell
Year: October 1, 2020
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 61 MB
Language: English
Year: October 1, 2020
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 61 MB
Language: English
This is an imaginative exploration of the art of David Jones which addresses Christian teaching through engagement with selected artistic a poem, a painted inscription and a wood engraving. Elizabeth R. Powell's study does not just enable readers to understand Jones but also to use his kind of loving attention in their own lives - which, Jones would argue, is theology's most important task.Through close readings of material objects, Powell draws the reader into the participatory, performative and dialogical possibilities of the craft of theology. She frames an older style of theology in a distinctive and modern way, as a graced human practice and a place of transforming relation with the divine. Powell argues that Jones's art works offer places of beauty in which to 'become beauty' along the way. Located at the cross-section of theology, literature and the arts, this volume shows that being interdisciplinary is nothing less than finding ways for theology and humanity to be more richly itself.