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Sacred Community
David Jasper
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Description for Sacred Community
Hardcover. The art of sacrament and the life of Christian community Num Pages: 242 pages, 8 color images. BIC Classification: AGR; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 560.
Liturgical, sacramental, and historical, The Sacred Community is a masterful work of theological aesthetics. David Jasper draws upon a rich variety of texts and images from literature, art, and religious tradition to explore the liturgical community gathered around - and most fully constituted by - the moment of the Sanctus in the Eucharistic liturgy. From art and architecture to pilgrimage and politics Jasper places this community in the midst of the contemporary world.
Liturgical, sacramental, and historical, The Sacred Community is a masterful work of theological aesthetics. David Jasper draws upon a rich variety of texts and images from literature, art, and religious tradition to explore the liturgical community gathered around - and most fully constituted by - the moment of the Sanctus in the Eucharistic liturgy. From art and architecture to pilgrimage and politics Jasper places this community in the midst of the contemporary world.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Baylor University Press United States
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Waco, United States
ISBN
9781602585584
SKU
V9781602585584
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99-80
About David Jasper
David Jasper is Professor of Literature and Theology, University of Glasgow. His previous books include The Sacred Desert: Religion, Literature, Art and Culture and The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology. He lives in Wishaw, Scotland.
Reviews for Sacred Community
"Intensely reflective and deeply moving. Ranging widely over the landscape of ancient and modern theology, literature, and history alike, this rich and rewarding work explores the grace of a self-emptying God and the gift of sacred community."
Roger Lundin author of Believing Again: Doubt and Faith in a Secular Age "In Sacred Community , Jasper demonstrates how the Christian community plays a significant role in God's plan for human salvation. Both informative and contemplative, Jasper's imagination is truly universal in its breadth, drawing from western and eastern traditions, philosophy, and the arts and sciences. He has a poet's ear for language."
Thomas Scirghi, Associate Professor of Theology, Fordham University The rich layers of theological reflection with which [Jasper] weaves together his conversation between the arts and Christian liturgy benefit from not only a host of modern and contemporary artists, writers and poets with religious concerns but also from particularly poignant soundings on these matters from various cultural voices among the likes of philosophers, scientists, and historians.
Taylor Worley, Union University
Theological Book Review Jasper's illustration of this repetition and remembrance of betrayal in the composition and reading of the Gospel of Mark, and how this complex web of multifold betrayals are inseparable from the 'good news' itself, is subtle and a masterful wedding of literary theory and theology.
Bradley A. Johnson
Literature and Theology Stylistically, Jasper's ability to make surprising connections enthralls, baffles, and enchants
often simultaneously
making this book a nourishing and exciting springboard for contemplation.
D. R. Boscaljon, independent scholar
CHOICE Advance Ranging from the writings of and about the Desert Fathers and Mothers, classic texts by medieval mystics, works of classical and modern art, and contemporary Continental philosophy, Jasper reads each as work of literature with theological secrets to tell. The elusive, oracular quality of his writing can be at times difficult, but more often than not even his most meditative and specialist pieces are conversational and inviting.
Bradley Johnson
Literature and Theology Journal
Roger Lundin author of Believing Again: Doubt and Faith in a Secular Age "In Sacred Community , Jasper demonstrates how the Christian community plays a significant role in God's plan for human salvation. Both informative and contemplative, Jasper's imagination is truly universal in its breadth, drawing from western and eastern traditions, philosophy, and the arts and sciences. He has a poet's ear for language."
Thomas Scirghi, Associate Professor of Theology, Fordham University The rich layers of theological reflection with which [Jasper] weaves together his conversation between the arts and Christian liturgy benefit from not only a host of modern and contemporary artists, writers and poets with religious concerns but also from particularly poignant soundings on these matters from various cultural voices among the likes of philosophers, scientists, and historians.
Taylor Worley, Union University
Theological Book Review Jasper's illustration of this repetition and remembrance of betrayal in the composition and reading of the Gospel of Mark, and how this complex web of multifold betrayals are inseparable from the 'good news' itself, is subtle and a masterful wedding of literary theory and theology.
Bradley A. Johnson
Literature and Theology Stylistically, Jasper's ability to make surprising connections enthralls, baffles, and enchants
often simultaneously
making this book a nourishing and exciting springboard for contemplation.
D. R. Boscaljon, independent scholar
CHOICE Advance Ranging from the writings of and about the Desert Fathers and Mothers, classic texts by medieval mystics, works of classical and modern art, and contemporary Continental philosophy, Jasper reads each as work of literature with theological secrets to tell. The elusive, oracular quality of his writing can be at times difficult, but more often than not even his most meditative and specialist pieces are conversational and inviting.
Bradley Johnson
Literature and Theology Journal