Book contents
- Sacred Modes of Being in a Postsecular World
- Reviews
- Sacred Modes of Being in a Postsecular World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Jasper’s Sacred Mode of Being
- Part II Theology’s Cultural Mode of the Sacred
- Part III Culture’s Theological Mode of the Sacred
- Chapter 7 The Interdisciplinary Nature of Literature and Theology
- Chapter 8 William Blake as leitourgos
- Chapter 9 Bodies Dead or Alive?
- Chapter 10 The Desert Is in the Words We Speak
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
Afterword
from Part III - Culture’s Theological Mode of the Sacred
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2021
- Sacred Modes of Being in a Postsecular World
- Reviews
- Sacred Modes of Being in a Postsecular World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Jasper’s Sacred Mode of Being
- Part II Theology’s Cultural Mode of the Sacred
- Part III Culture’s Theological Mode of the Sacred
- Chapter 7 The Interdisciplinary Nature of Literature and Theology
- Chapter 8 William Blake as leitourgos
- Chapter 9 Bodies Dead or Alive?
- Chapter 10 The Desert Is in the Words We Speak
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This Afterword responds to each of the foregoing chapters in relation to the postsecular nature of the sacred. It begins by redirecting the question of the sacred from one of definition to one of enactment, and then proceeds by reflecting on how each chapter might enact the sacred in its own way, even if implicitly, and so often by rummaging in poetry, literature, visual art and language. It finishes by reiterating a possible sacred place in our contemporary deserts in which all opposites might be reconciled in Total Presence.
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- Sacred Modes of Being in a Postsecular World , pp. 223 - 233Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021