Prophetic Witness and the Reimagining of the World : Poetry, Theology and Philosophy in Dialogue- Power of the Word V (Paperback)

Contributors Introduction by the Editors I: Approaching the Prophetic: Orientations, Ancient and Modern 1 At the Creative Source of the Arts: Poetry as Prophecy in a Negative Theological Key William Franke 2 Isaiah: Reading Writing, Re-Voicing Silent Israel Katherine Brown 3 ‘Diversely and in Many Ways God poke by the Prophets’: New Testament Perspectives and William Blake on the Prophetic Word Christopher Rowland 4 Poetry, Prophecy and the Angelic Voice: Reflections on the Divine Word Mona Siddiqui 5 Prophecy and the Poetic Word David Lonsdale II: Prophecy in the Critical Lens of Philosophy 6 Explanation, Silence, and Then Poetry: Wittgenstein’s Poetic Philosophy as a Prophetic Vision of Life Paul Grosch 7 The Philosopher Empedocles as Prophet and His Reception by Freud Alessandro Schiesaro 8 Poetry, Prophecy and Presence: Reading the Signs of the Times with Jacques Ellul Jacob Rollison 9 Beyond the ‘Immanent Frame’: Charles Taylor as Interpreter of the Prophetic in Poetry Lukasz Tischner III. The Prophetic in the Witness of Literature 10 John Clare’s Romantic ‘I’: A Prophetic Poetics of Testimony Elizabeth Dodd 11 Fearful Symmetry, Seventy Years On: Northrop Frye on William Blake Michael Kirwan, SJ 12 Czesław Miłosz and R. S. Thomas as Prophetic Voices of Our Time Pryemzslaw Michalski 13 When does a Pilgrim become a Prophet? R. S. Thomas, ‘This to do’, and the Shaping of a Prophet Carys Walsh 14 T. S. Eliot and Tadeusz Ro?ewicz: The Prophetic Strain Jean Ward 15 The Forerunners: St. John the Baptist and Lazarus in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot Malgorzata Grzegorzewska IV. Looking Forward: Framing the Question of the Prophetic in Late-Modernity 16 The Power of Spiritual Poetry in a Secular World Hilary Davies 17 ‘Nature Is Never Spent’?: The Prophetic Voice in Contemporary Canadian Ecological Poetry Deborah Bowen 18 Prophecy as Hope: Interpreting the Silence of Holy Saturday Tina Beattie