God and mystery in words: experience through metaphor and drama

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 se...

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Subtitles:God & mystery in words
Main Author: Brown, David 1948 July 1- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2008
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Reviews:Book Review: God and Mystery in Words: Experience through Metaphor and Drama. By David Brown. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. 304. Price: £25 (hbk). ISBN 978-0-19-923183-6 (2010) (Tracey, Liam M.)
Further subjects:B Religion and poetry
B Worship
B Religion and drama
B Christianity and the arts
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