Contemplation and Contemporary Poetry: The Gift of Not Knowing
This essay argues that the value of contemporary poetry for the Christian life is as much a matter of form as content. The formal difficulty of contemporary poetry creates an experience of attentional friction that demands a mode of contemplation conducive to spiritual exercises. Such capacity for c...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Christianity & literature
Year: 2025, Volume: 74, Issue: 1, Pages: 52-61 |
| RelBib Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture CE Christian art NBC Doctrine of God VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Meister Eckhart
B Mysticism B Romanticism B Martin Heidegger |
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| Summary: | This essay argues that the value of contemporary poetry for the Christian life is as much a matter of form as content. The formal difficulty of contemporary poetry creates an experience of attentional friction that demands a mode of contemplation conducive to spiritual exercises. Such capacity for contemplation is a mode of resistance to the Distraction Industrial Complex and opens readers to a mode of awareness beyond the discursive. Thus contemporary poetry can serve as a prelude or portal to mystical sensibilities. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/chy.2025.a960705 |
