Theology and Literature: Recent Episodes
Ryan McDermott
Reading out of print or uncopyrighted works of theology and literature as a service to fellow students of the good, true, and beautiful.
This is one of the Harley Lyrics from British Library Harley MS 2253. You can find the text at this wonderful Harley Lyrics site: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~wpwt/harl2253/ichot/ichot.htm.
My good friend Fr. Matthew Olver preached this Christmas sermon at the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in Dallas, TX, on Christmas day.
I read this story last night at the Fellowship of the Leaf. It's one of three stories I've written that I still like (the other two have been published.) I had a great time reading it, sipping some bourbon, and sharing this part of my (previous?) life with good friends.
Archbishop and Cardinal Pray in the Sistine Chapel
The Anglican and Roman Catholic delegations in Rome for the historic meeting of the Archbishop and the Pope and celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Anglican Centre in Rome, visited the Sistine Chapel today for prayers, marking the visit of Archbishop Michael Ramsey to Pope Paul VI in 1966. Cardinal Kaspar and the Archbishop will meet today for 'informal talks' and then worship with the St Egidio community at St Bartholomews Church. The text of the lecture given by Archbishop Rowan last night at St Anselmo Church and Religious Community follows:
Joel Gunderson interviews Rob Hendricks during their recent poetry seminar in Portland, Oregon. Both are close friends. Might be more interesting if you've read their poetry.
Reading from this recent book by the archbishop of Venice, including "four essential features of the meaning of the man-woman pair." I'll happily take this down if Eerdmans objects.
Larry Bouchard's typology of approaches to the academic study of the intersection of religion and literature. "These four theses are intended mainly to describe, for the sake of comparison and discussion, some rationales for the intentional study of religion and literature. When we look at specific occasions of such study, more than one thesis may apply. They may be mutually inclusive, and I consider them all valid and valuable. But their negations ("au contraire"), as far as I am concerned, are not necessarily mutually consistent. They represent some very important, often "postmodernist" directions for criticizing religion and literature studies."
The story of the first poem in the English language, revealed in a dream to an illiterate shepherd.