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Poetry and Apocalypse: Theological Disclosures of Poetic Language

Poetry and Apocalypse: Theological Disclosures of Poetic Language

Franke, William

Hardcover

PhilosophyPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0804759103
ISBN13: 9780804759106
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Oct 10 2008
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

In Poetry and Apocalypse, Franke seeks to find the premises for dialogue between cultures, especially religious fundamentalisms--including Islamic fundamentalism--and modern Western secularism. He argues that in order to be genuinely open, dialogue needs to accept possibilities such as religious apocalypse in ways that can be best understood through the experience of poetry. Franke reads Christian epic and prophetic tradition as a secularization of religious revelation that preserves an understanding of the essentially apocalyptic character of truth and its disclosure in history. The usually neglected negative theology that undergirds this apocalyptic tradition provides the key to a radically new view of apocalypse as at once religious and poetic.

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