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Books by Publisher: Hells and Holy Ghosts: A Theopoetics of Christian Belief

Title:	Hells and Holy Ghosts: A Theopoetics of Christian Belief
Authors:	David L. Miller
ISBN-10(13):	9781882670970
Publisher:	SpringJournal
Publication date:	2004-07-01
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Price:	$20.00
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Description:	Product Description Offers a learned and yet playful postmodern reappropriation and reanimation of two central Christian themes: Christ's descent into hell and the resurrection of the dead. The move from a theological to a theopoetical perspective reveals the pervasive archetypal anxieties and hopes that underlie the traditional dogmas and enables us to recognize how central these same motifs are in Greek mythology and in some of the most powerful twentieth-century poetry. We may be amazed to discover how these seemingly obsolete notions, if understood metaphorically rather than literally, can illuminate and deepen our own experiences of despair and of living with "ghosts" from our past that seemingly will not let us go.

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