Poetry
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Ascent To Love
$16.00Add to cartAcknowledgments
Chapter 1: I Have Come To The Garden
The Classics, The Bible, And Love In Medieval Literature
Chapter 2: Politics, Prophecy, And The Poetry Of Love
Chapter 3: Not Yet Aeneas, Not Yet Paul Inferno
Chapter 4: Redeemed From Fire By Fire Purgatorio
Chapter 5: Join The Dance Paradiso
Author IndexAdditional Info
As the unsurpassed Christian epic poem, Dante’s Divine Comedy provides not only far more personality and emotional depth than the pagan epics, it opens up all the issues on which Western history turns-truth, beauty, goodness, sin, sanctification, and triumph.In this guide, Peter J. Leithart brings his rich biblical-typological insight to bear in opening up the Comedy for students, high school and up, mainly the sort of kids who keep looking for the jokes in the comedy. After examining the meaning and place of the courtly love tradition leading up to Dante, the heart of the guide walks us carefully through the craft and symbolisms of each progressive stage – Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Each section contains helpful study questions.
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Roar On The Other Side
$15.00Add to cartPoetry stands at the center of Christian living. We glorify God through noticing, comparing, and naming in sometimes startling ways. Unlike the eye of science, poetry sees the deeper meanings that bind seemingly disjointed facts together. Poetry is the language of revelation, a most immediate means by which we may suspect the Mystery of the Word inhabiting our lives. The Roar on the Other Side is an invaluable introduction to the habits and skills that make a poet; more importantly, it is an introduction to the “vision” that makes a poet worth reading.
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Chapters Into Verse (Abridged)
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Drawing a unique map of the history of English poetry, Chapters Into Verse surveys and defines the literary legacy of the Scriptures from the fourteenth century to the present. Arranged in scriptural order from Genesis to Revelation, the book presents each poem alongside the biblical passage that inspired it. Thus readers can conveniently witness the various ways sacred text has sparked the imagination of poets throughout the ages. The editors have included poems by virtually all the prominent religious poets–among them John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Edward Taylor, and Gerard Manly Hopkins. Included, too, are devotional and visionary works from a wide range of vintage poets–Robert Burns, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Tennyson, and Robert Browning. Proving that the Bible is just as powerful a source of inspiration today as it was in the past, the collection also assembles a mixed congregation of modern and contemporary poets, such as Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Countee Cullen, e.e. cummings, William Butler Yeats, Laura (Riding) Jackson, A.D. Hope, Denise Levertov, and Philip Levine.Of enduring interest to readers of both scripture and literature, this anthology illuminates key passages of the Old and New Testament. In selection after selection, readers will encounter an astonishing variety of religious experiences, as a host of poets from many eras and many backgrounds respond to Holy Scripture profoundly and imaginatively. Features
“Spiritually, stylistically and chronologically, the range is absolutely astonishing.”–Parade Magazine -
Psalms For A Pilgrim People
$35.95Add to cartThis book is neither a translation nor a paraphrase of the Psalms. Rather, the aim has been to make the Psalms prayable for those who find stumbling blocks in many of them as they have been variously translated into English. There is much in the Psalms, written centuries ago, that still speaks to us today; but there are other passages that trouble us. We live in a world vastly different from that of the Psalmist. Jim Cotter’s Psalms take today’s realities into account by including reference to issues of concern to us now, while retaining the poetry and beauty of the original Psalms.
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For His Glory
$15.99Add to cartWritten in the tradition of the psalmists and inspired by the Holy Spirit, Cindy Price’s verses have never failed to be a source of encouragement. Whether they are a celebration of joy, an expression of sorrow, a question of why, a plea for deliverance, or a song of praise, her verses always glorify God and magnify His holy name. After reading this collection of inspirational writings, you will find yourself gazing at familiar stories and scriptures with a new outlook, and you will see the wild extravagence of God’s love in a new light.
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Interpreting Hebrew Poetry
$19.00Add to cartEditor’s Foreword
Abbreviations
1. Understanding Hebrew Poetry
Definition
Problems
Theories Of Poetry
Poetry-Prose Continuum
Three Approaches
Relationship Of Methods2. Parallelism
Robert Lowth
Basic Nomenclature
Synonymous, Antithetic, Synthetic Parallelism
New Understandings
Grammatic, Morphologic, Semantic Parallelism
Summary3. Meter And Rhythm
Definitions
Meter
Rhythm4. Poetic Style
Simile
Stanza And Strophe5. Poetic Analysis
Deuteronomy
Isaiah 5:1-17
Psalm 1
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Author Index
Scripture IndexAdditional Info
Here is a convenient introduction to the unique aspects of interpreting the one-third of the Hebrew Bible that is in poetic form. Numerous are the occasions when a failure to distinguish poetry from prose in the Old Testament has resulted in flawed interpretation. Robert Lowth’s Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews (1753, 1787), marked a turning point of major proportions by focusing on the importance of parallelism of lines. But new studies of the past decade now require significant adjustments to Lowth’s analyses. Interpreting Hebrew Poetry offers an authoritative introduction to this discussion of parallelism, meter and rhythm, and poetic style. It also provides by way of example a poetic analysis of Deuteronomy 32, Isaiah 5:1-7, and Psalm 1. -
Gospel Treasury Cycle B
$16.95Add to cartWould you like to add something new, something fresh, to your lectionary worship experience? If you answered “Yes!” you will love this new collection by Andrew Daughters for Cycle B.
Use these inspirational poems in your church’s worship service as corporate readings, pastoral prayers, opportunities for lay involvement, or as private meditations. Or duplicate them for insertion in your parish newsletter or bulletin. However you choose to use them, this special collection will add vitality and meaning to your worship experience all year long.
This book is part of a three-part set, which follows the Lectionary cycles A, B and C. -
Gospel Treasury Cycle A
$15.95Add to cartWould you like to add something new, something fresh, to your lectionary worship experience? If you answered “Yes!” you will love this new collection by Andrew Daughters of contemporary poems based on lectionary Gospel texts for Cycle A.
Use these inspirational poems in your church’s worship service as corporate readings, pastoral prayers, opportunities for lay involvement, or as private meditations. Or duplicate them for insertion in your parish newsletter or bulletin. However you choose to use them, this special collection will add vitality and meaning to your worship experience all year long. -
Gospel Treasury Cycle C
$15.95Add to cartWould you like to add something new, something fresh, to your lectionary worship experience? If you answered “Yes!” you will love this new collection by Andrew Daughters of contemporary poems based on lectionary Gospel texts for Cycle C.
Use these inspirational poems in your church’s worship service as corporate readings, pastoral prayers, opportunities for lay involvement, or as private meditations. Or duplicate them for insertion in your parish newsletter or bulletin. However you choose to use them, this special collection will add vitality and meaning to your worship experience all year long.
