Lyric Theology - 9781481316200

Lyric TheologyArt and the Doctrine of Creation\nAuthor(s): Thomas Gardner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Baylor University Press, United States\nImprint: Baylor University Press\nISBN-13: 9781481316200, 978-1481316200\nSynopsis\nArt is an outworking of God's creative process, a tangible participation in the shaping of the world. Through our artistic endeavors, we both express our understanding of creation and imbue that creation with new meaning. Four artists in particularthe poet Czeslaw Milosz, filmmaker Terrence Malick, novelist Marilynne Robinson, and lyric essayist Annie Dillardactively wrestle with a world that reflects God's glory while remaining at times deeply and troublingly obscure. \n\nIn Lyric Theology, Thomas Gardner unfolds the ways these four important contemporary figures, drawing on modes of thinking rooted in lyric poetry, explore what the world looks like when seen as created and received as a gift. Lyric thinking, he argues, dramatizes a mind and spirit reaching .