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Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism: When God Left the World

Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism: When God Left the World

Schwartz, Regina Mara

Hardcover

Series: Cultural Memory in the Present

Literary CriticismReligion General

ISBN10: 0804756678
ISBN13: 9780804756679
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: May 30 2008
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism asks what happened when the world was shaken by challenges to the sacred order as people had known it, an order that regulated both their actions and beliefs. When Reformers gave up the doctrine of transubstantiation (even as they held onto revised forms of the Eucharist), they lost a doctrine that infuses all materiality, spirituality, and signification with the presence of God. That presence guaranteed the cleansing of human fault, the establishment of justice, the success of communication, the possibility of union with God and another, and love. These longings were not lost but displaced, Schwartz argues, onto other cultural forms in a movement from ritual to the arts, from the sacrament to the sacramental. Investigating the relationship of the arts to the sacred, Schwartz returns to the primary meaning of sacramental as sign making, noting that because the sign always points beyond itself, it participates in transcendence, and this evocation of transcendence, of mystery, is the work of a sacramental poetics.

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