Poetry, Philosophy and Theology in Conversation: Thresholds of Wonder

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction: why wonder?
Part I Philosophical perspectives
	In the Valley of the Lot
	1 The wonder of not wondering: from Plato to Lucretius
	2 Wonder and the philosopher’s perfection: Giordano Bruno
	3 Wonder, epiphany, haecceity in Gerard Manley Hopkins
	4 Wonder in ethics and aesthetics: Wittgenstein and Rabindranath Tagore
	5 A mysticism of a dead leaf: a brief apology for an ordinary phenomenon
Part II Theological perspectives
	The Litany
	6 The extraordinary of the ordinary: G.K. Chesterton, imagination and the wonder of a natural theology
	7 Between rapture and rupture: an exploration of wonder
	8 Between the poet and the legislator: wonder and ambivalence in Midrash and Hebrew poetry
	9 Scandalous wonder: contemplating the cross with Isaac Watts
	10 This world of wonders: theology, poetics and everyday life
Part III Literary perspectives
	Creed
	11 Wonder and the power of the word
	12 Wonder and the radical vision of Francis of Assisi
	13 Rilke’s poetics of wonder: looking at the picture books of beauty in the Duino Elegies
	14 Poetry, radicalism and wonder: Peter Levi, priesthood and David Jones
	15 ‘The flowers remember/ the sugar bowl remembers’: quotidian wonder and the painter/ poet Joanna Margaret Paul
Part IV Afterword
	A Space for God
	16 ‘Learn from wonder, nurture astonishment’: notes on Bergoglio’s aesthetics
Index