The Power of the Word Project is an international academic network that exists to promote dialogue on topics of common interest among creative writers and scholars and students in different disciplines in the humanities. The book series aims to extend the work of the Power of the Word Project by continuing to stimulate and encourage interdisciplinary conversations which explore boundaries, harmonies and hostilities, convergences and divergences between imaginative literature on the one hand and philosophy, theology, biblical studies, ethics and traditions of religious faith, experience and practice on the other. The series is international and intercultural in its range of authors and topics. It includes edited volumes and single-author monographs and welcomes discussion of theoretical issues alongside studies of particular writers and their work.
Edited
By Mark S. Burrows, Hilary Davies, Josephine von Zitzewitz
May 06, 2022
This book explores the prophetic characteristics of literature, particularly poetry, that seek to reimagine the world in which it is written. Using theological and philosophical insights it charts the relentless impulse of literature to propose alternative visions, practicable or utopian, and point...
Edited
By Mark S. Burrows, Jean Ward, Małgorzata Grzegorzewska
March 31, 2021
This book explores the much debated relation of language and bodily experience (i.e. the 'flesh'), considering in particular how poetry functions as revelatory discourse and thus relates to the formal horizon of theological inquiry. The central thematic focus is around a 'phenomenology of the flesh...
Edited
By Francesca Bugliani Knox, Jennifer Reek
March 31, 2021
This volume is a collection of essays that explains how literature, philosophy and theology have explored the role of wonder in our lives, particularly through poetry. Wonder has been an object of fascination for these disciplines from the Greek antiquity onwards, yet the connections between their ...
By Francesca Bugliani Knox, David Lonsdale
February 12, 2018
What is the role of spiritual experience in poetry? What are the marks of a religious imagination? How close can the secular and the religious be brought together? How do poetic imagination and religious beliefs interact? Exploring such questions through the concept of the religious imagination, ...
By Francesca Bugliani Knox, John Took
March 29, 2017
Interdisciplinary and ecumenical in scope, Poetry and Prayer offers theoretical discussion on the profound connection between poetic inspiration and prayer as well as reflection on the work of individual writers and the traditions within which they stand. An international range of established ...