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Product details
- ISBN 9780199231836
- Weight: 488g
- Dimensions: 147 x 223mm
- Publication Date: 20 Mar 2008
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 dramatic theory or the sociology of ritual. Yet this was not always so. Poetry and drama, Brown suggests, grew out of religion, and therefore that creative potential needs to be rediscovered by religion.
David Brown is Van Mildert Professor of Divinity at Durham University, and a Fellow of the British Academy.
