Geoffrey Hill’s Poetic Incarnational Theology
Geoffrey Hill’s poems are saturated with the cluttered bleakness of the nihilistic view of the natural world, but in Hill’s own Christian incarnational theology it is precisely this filthy world into which Christ was incarnated in order to redeem humans from Original Sin. Fortified with but also rat...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2020]
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Religion and the arts
Year: 2020, Volume: 24, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 110-131 |
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Hill, Geoffrey 1932-2016
/ Theology
/ Incarnation of Jesus Christ
/ World
/ Nihilism
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism CB Christian life; spirituality FA Theology |
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Postmodernism
B Incarnation B Geoffrey Hill B Christianity B Nihilism |
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| Summary: | Geoffrey Hill’s poems are saturated with the cluttered bleakness of the nihilistic view of the natural world, but in Hill’s own Christian incarnational theology it is precisely this filthy world into which Christ was incarnated in order to redeem humans from Original Sin. Fortified with but also rattled by the Incarnation and the doctrine of Original Sin, in his poems Hill is faced with the profound, agonizing existential choice to embrace Christ or reject Christianity as a farce, and it is this perilous pose that serves as the theological grounding of the oeuvre the man who now, sadly, was the greatest contemporary Christian poet. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5292 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion and the arts
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02401002 |