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Call and Response – the Vision of God in John Donne and George Herbert

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Jeffrey G. Sobosan
Jeffrey G. Sobosan
Affiliation:
Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California
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One thing our modern dialogue-consciousness has given us is what might be called an historical ‘sounding board’ harking back to the Hebraic tradition in which reverberate refrains of words like ‘When he calls, I shall answer, I am with you’ (Psalm 90). Set within the framework of our own age, which could be termed an age which speaks of God grown silent, these echoes can have a particular poignancy for us and we can at times find special relevance in the discovery of comparable tensions in the past. Such a tension is revealed in a study of the religious verse of two seventeenth-century English poets, John Donne and George Herbert.

Type
Research Article
Information
Religious Studies , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , December 1977 , pp. 395 - 407
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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