“With My Utmost Art”: The Inspiration of George Herbert's Poetry and the Limits of Austin Farrer's Vision

2016 ◽  
Vol 98 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-531
Author(s):  
Sarah Miller
Keyword(s):  
Close Reading ◽  
Historical Understanding ◽  
The World ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Love Of God ◽  
The Temple

This essay argues that poetry can participate in God's ongoing self-revelation in the world, against Austin Farrer's view that the conveyance of supernatural truths is restricted to prophecy and the original apostolic witness. The author turns to Farrer's own descriptions of inspiration and revelation in The Glass of Vision to support this claim, as well as advocating with Ingolf Dalferth for a trans-historical understanding of the Spirit's work of revelation. Finally, through a close reading of key poems in George Herbert's The Temple, the essay offers an account of how the Spirit might move through the medium of poetry, leading poet and reader to deeper knowledge and love of God in Christ.

Soteria

1953 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 406-416
Author(s):  
R. McL. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Good News ◽  
Early Church ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Love Of God ◽  
Wrath Of God

In the Gospel according to St. John it is written that ‘God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have ever-lasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.’ In these familiar words is summed up the message of the Bible as a whole, and of the New Testament in particular. In spite of all that may be said of sin and depravity, of judgment and the wrath of God, the last word is one not of doom but of salvation. The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is a Gospel of salvation, of deliverance and redemption. The news that was carried into all the world by the early Church was the Good News of the grace and love of God, revealed and made known in Jesus Christ His Son. In the words of Paul, it is that ‘God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself’.

Mary in Medieval Prayer: The Hours of the Virgin

2019 ◽  
pp. 337-351
Author(s):  
Rachel Fulton Brown
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
The Hours ◽  
Hearts And Minds ◽  
The Temple

By the later Middle Ages, every man, woman, or child, cleric or lay, who could read would have known the Hours or ‘Little Office’ of the Virgin Mary. Even those who could not read the Office in full would have known to recite its opening antiphon (Ave Maria) at the appropriate hours of the day. This chapter argues that a close reading of the texts of the Hours themselves is necessary to appreciate fully the place that Mary held in the hearts and minds of her medieval devotees. Through the hymns, antiphons, and psalms that make up the core of her Office, Mary is revealed as above all the temple in which God made himself present to the world, the Lord whom the psalmist called upon to make his face shine on his people. It was with this understanding of Mary that her medieval devotees sought to serve her through the recitation of her Hours.

scholarly journals Makna Kemah Suci Hingga Bait Allah Bagi Kehidupan Religius Kristen Masa Kini

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-36
Author(s):  
Jhon Leonardo Presley Purba
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
God's People ◽  
The World ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The religious life of today's Christians cannot be separated from the religious life of God's people in Old Testament times centered on the Tabernacle and temple. Therefore, this study aims to find and explain the meaning of the Tabernacle and the Temple for today's Christian religious life. This research is presented in descriptive qualitative form. The method used is literature studies to collect as many theories as possible from literature materials that correlate with research topics. The sources used are textbooks, physical or e-books, and journals. The results of this study show the Tabernacle of God, through Moses, speaks of the image of Christ in His journey, ministry and glory on earth. While the Temple, through Solomon, spoke of Christ in His ministry and glory in heaven. Implementation for Christians today, everyone must come to God through faith in Christ, Christians are the temple or dwelling place of the Spirit of God today, God is always present and leads the christian life, Christians must offer themselves to God and be His witnesses in the world. Kehidupan religius orang Kristen masa kini tidak dapat dilepaskan dari kehidupan religius umat Allah pada zaman Perjanjian Lama yang berpusat pada Kemah Suci dan Bait Allah. Oleh karena itu, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mencari dan menjelaskan makna Kemah Suci dan Bait Allah bagi kehidupan religius Kristen masa kini. Penelitian ini disajikan dalam bentuk kualitatif deskriptif. Metode yang digunakan adalah studi literature untuk mengumpulkan sebanyak mungkin teori dari bahan kepustakaan yang berkorelasi dengan topik penelitian. Sumber-sumber yang digunakan adalah buku teks, fisik atau e-book, dan jurnal. Hasil penelitian ini  menunjukkan Kemah Suci Allah, melalui Musa, berbicara tentang gambaran Kristus dalam perjalanan, pelayanan dan kemuliaan-Nya di bumi. Sedangkan Bait Allah, melalui Salomo, berbicara tentang Kristus dalam pelayanan dan kemuliaan-Nya di surga. Implementasi bagi Kristen masa kini, setiap orang harus datang kepada Allah melalui iman dalam Kristus, orang Kristen adalah bait atau tempat berdiamnya Roh Allah saat ini, Allah senantiasa hadir dan menuntun kehidupan orang Kristen, orang Kristen harus mempersembahkan dirinya bagi Allah dan menjadi saksi-Nya di dunia.

Church, State, Principalities, Powers

1976 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 244-252
Author(s):  
Stephen McCutchan
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Love Of God ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Devil ◽  
Romans 8

“Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in this evil day, and having done all, to stand.” –-Ephesians 6:11-13. “Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” –-Romans 8:38-39.

Flow

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitchell Ohriner
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
Rap Music ◽  
Music Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
South Bronx ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Voice Flow ◽  
Computational Music Analysis

Originating in dance parties in the South Bronx in the late 1970s, hip hop and rap music have become a dominant style of popular music in the United States and a force for activism all over the world. So, too, has scholarship on this music grown, yet much of this scholarship, employing methods drawn from sociology and literature, leaves unaddressed the expressive musical choices made by hip-hop artists. This book addresses flow, the rhythm of the rapping voice. Flow presents theoretical and analytical challenges not encountered elsewhere. It is rhythmic as other music is rhythmic. But it is also rhythmic as speech and poetry are rhythmic. Key concepts related to rhythm, such as meter, periodicity, patterning, and accent, are treated independently in scholarship of music, poetry, and speech. This book reconciles those approaches, theorizing flow by integrating the methods of computational music analysis and humanistic close reading. Through the analysis of large collections of verses, it addresses questions in the theories of rhythm, meter, and groove in the unique ecology of rap music. Specifically, the work of Eminem clarifies how flow relates to text, the work of Black Thought clarifies how flow relates to other instrumental streams, and the work of Talib Kweli clarifies how flow relates to rap’s persistent meter. Although the focus throughout is rap music, the methods introduced are appropriate for other genres mix voices and more rigid metric frameworks and further extends the valuable work on hip hop from other perspectives in recent years.

Appropriating Hobbes

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Boucher
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
Historical Understanding ◽  
Main Claim ◽  
The World ◽  
Michael Oakeshott ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

The aim of this book is not to trace the changing fortunes of the interpretation of one of the most sophisticated and famous political philosophers who ever lived, but to glimpse here and there his place in different contexts, and how his interpreters see their own images reflected in him, or how they define themselves in contrast to him. The main claim is that there is no Hobbes independent of the interpretations that arise from his appropriation in these various contexts and which serve to present him to the world. There is no one perfect context that enables us to get at what Hobbes ‘really meant’, despite the numerous claims to the contrary. He is almost indistinguishable from the context in which he is read. This contention is justified with reference to hermeneutics, and particularly the theories of Gadamer, Koselleck, and Ricoeur, contending that through a process of ‘distanciation’ Hobbes’s writings have been appropriated and commandeered to do service in divergent contexts such as philosophical idealism; debates over the philosophical versus historical understanding of texts; and in ideological disputations, and emblematic characterizations of him by various disciplines such as law, politics, and international relations. The book illustrates the capacity of a text to take on the colouration of its surroundings by exploring and explicating the importance of contexts in reading and understanding how and why particular interpretations of Hobbes have emerged, such as those of Carl Schmitt and Michael Oakeshott, or the international jurists of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.

Matthew Arnold and the Institutional Imagination of Liberalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-375
Author(s):  
Sebastian Lecourt
Keyword(s):  
Close Reading ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Matthew Arnold ◽  
Main Claim ◽  
Great Books ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
The World ◽  
Class Divisions ◽  
Literary Canons

I first took up Matthew Arnold's essays as a dissertation writer circa 2008. Although I had not read much of Arnold's prose beyond the commonly anthologized pieces (“The Function of Criticism at the Present Time,” “The Study of Poetry,” bits of Culture and Anarchy), he was a figure very much out of favor, and I brought to the table a strong preconception of his polemic. Arnold, I had learned, was a kind of cultural nationalist trying to fight class divisions within Britain by prescribing a narrow canon of books that could shore up a common language for his compatriots. His main claim was that there was a singular tradition of great books called “culture” that embodied “the best that is known and thought in the world.” Everyone in Britain needed to keep reading these books if the nation were to retain a shared identity and not fall into chaos. Furthermore, as I understood it, Arnold thought that to experience culture you needed to remain “disinterested” and “aloof from what is called ‘the practical view of things’” (5:252). Arnold was a Victorian Mortimer Adler who sought to defend the authority of traditional literary canons as well as a Victorian Wimsatt-and-Beardsley who upheld disinterested close reading against hyperpolitical Theory.

Temple Destruction, Mourning and Curse in Elephantine, with a View to Lamentations

2020 ◽  
Vol 132 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-107
Author(s):  
Gard Granerød
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
The Temple

AbstractThe article discusses the lament over the Temple of YHW in Elephantine from three angles: from the perspective of the internal rhetoric or composition of the letter, from the perspective of the world of the Judaeans who wrote the petition, and from the perspective of the world of the intended recipient of the letter. In addition, the article explores how the mention of collective mourning and curse in the petition letter from Elephantine may provide a text of comparison – and context – for the laments over the destruction of the city of Zion and her temple found in the Book of Lamentations.

Midrash, Myth, and Bakhtin's Chronotope: The Itinerant Well and the Foundation Stone in Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Adelman
Keyword(s):  
Rabbinic Literature ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The World ◽  
Dome Of The Rock ◽  
Temple Mount ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Foundation Stone

AbstractThroughout the midrash Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer (PRE), motifs are recycled to connect primordial time to the eschaton. In this paper, I read passages on the well “created at twilight of the Sixth Day” in light of Bakhtin's notion of “chronotope” (lit. time-space). The author of PRE disengages the itinerant well from its traditional association with the desert sojourn and links it, instead, to the foundation stone of the world (even shtiyah) at the Temple Mount. The midrash reflects the influence of Islamic legends about the “white stone” around which the Dome of the Rock was built (ca. 690 C.E.). Over the course of the discussion, PRE is understood in terms of the genre “narrative midrash” and compared to classical rabbinic literature in order to illustrate changes in both form and content arising from the author's apocalyptic eschatology.

Tirumala Tirupati: Wait a Moment

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Stephen E. Maiden ◽  
Gerry Yemen ◽  
Elliott N. Weiss ◽  
Oliver Wight
Keyword(s):  
Waiting Times ◽  
Throughput Rate ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Temple Complex ◽  
The World ◽  
Hindu Temples ◽  
Challenging Students ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Temple

This case examines the queueing issues caused by the growth in popularity of one of the most visited Hindu temples in the world. On January 2, 2015, Ramesh and Vasantha Gupta visit Tirumala Venkateswara Temple, just a day after some 210,000 people crowded the 2,000-year-old site. The case describes the many enhancements that the temple administrator, Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), has implemented since its management of the temple complex began in 1932. The soaring popularity of the temple, however, has led to safety and comfort concerns for pilgrims. While challenging students to consider additional improvements that might benefit pilgrim throughput rate and time in the temple system, the case highlights the tension TTD must manage between maximizing efficiency and maintaining religious traditions. Additionally, the case demonstrates the importance of perceived waiting times in the management of queues.

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