A Theopoetics in Ruins
This article takes as its starting point Bruno Latour’s reflections on the dereliction of theological discourse in contemporary culture. Acknowledging that theologians seek to avoid the question of how what “once had so much meaning [has] become absolutely meaningless,” it frames its reflections aro...
| Subtitles: | Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Toronto School of Theology, [Part 1] |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2020]
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Toronto journal of theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 36, Issue: 2, Pages: 159-169 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CH Christianity and Society |
| Further subjects: | B
Theopoetics
B Bruno Latour B Secularization B Catherine Keller |
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| Summary: | This article takes as its starting point Bruno Latour’s reflections on the dereliction of theological discourse in contemporary culture. Acknowledging that theologians seek to avoid the question of how what “once had so much meaning [has] become absolutely meaningless,” it frames its reflections around John 2:19 and seeks to develop a “theopoetics of the broken form” that is located in the ruins of faith. To do so, it employs creative resources from art and literature, as well as the author’s own life writing. Although there is no escaping from the destruction of former secure habitations, this work attempts to embody the transforming encounters that are possible when God making takes place in broken places where life and death meet. |
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| ISSN: | 1918-6371 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Toronto journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/tjt-2020-0082 |