Toward a sacramental poetics /

Distinguished theologians and literary scholars explore the workings of the sacred and the sacramental in language and literature. What does a sacramental poetics offer that secular cultural theory, for all of its advances, may have missed? How does a sacred understanding of the world differ from a...

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Other Authors: Schwartz, Regina M. (Editor), McGrath, Patrick J., 1984- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, [2021].
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