God and Mystery in Words: Experience Through Metaphor and Drama

by David Brown

Book Overview

In God and Mystery in Words, David Brown uses the way in which poetry and drama have in the past opened people to the possibility of religious experience as a launch pad for advocating less wooden approaches to Christian worship today. So far, from encouraging imagination and exploration, hymns and sermons now more commonly merely consolidate belief. Again, contemporary liturgy in both its music and its ceremonial fails to take seriously either current...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199231834
• ISBN13: 9780199231836
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.6"