A Theopoetics in Ruins
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21571237 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heather Walton (0000-0003-4030-8336, Heather Walton is professor of theology and creative practice at the University of Glasgow in Glasgow, Scotland., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 159-169 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Toronto Journal of Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0826-9831 • E-ISSN: 1918-6371 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/tjt-2020-0082 |
| OpenAlex | W3048270002 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
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
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Faith · Sociology · Computer Science · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Samuel Beckett and Modernism
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |