{"product_id":"poetry-does-theology-9780268038694","title":"Poetry Does Theology","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when poetry deals explicitly with a serious theological issue? In \u003cem\u003ePoetry Does Theology\u003c\/em\u003e, Jim Rhodes seeks one answer to that question by analyzing the symbiotic relationship that existed between theology and poetry in fourteenth-century England. He pays special attention to the narrative poems of Chaucer, Grosseteste, the Pearl-poet, the author of Saint Erkenwald, and Langland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRhodes shows that Chaucer and his contemporaries wrote at the end of a linguistic and theological revolution-a time when revised perspectives on the creation and incarnation gave rise to a new humanistic spirit that transformed late medieval theological culture and spurred the development of vernacular theology and poetry. Rhodes' careful analysis describes how the relationship between theology and poetry underwent a radical transformation as the latter half of the fourteenth century progressed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat had previously been the exclusive prerogative of a Latinate and clerical elite became in the later Middle Ages a matter of concern within vernacular culture, particularly the emerging category of \"literature.\" This newly defined and self-conscious literature provided not simply an arena in which theological questions could be raised; it also privileged a secular, humanist outlook that granted to earthly life its own legitimacy and dignity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Poetry Does Theology\u003c\/em\u003e, Rhodes argues that one of the distinctive qualities of modernity—its secular and this-worldly orientation—is a phenomenon that took root in England in the fourteenth century and found its primary site of development not in theological or philosophical circles, but in a vernacular literature that opened for inquiry the theological and philosophical questions that dominated the era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jim Rhodes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49013053292795,"sku":"9780268038694","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_6bc34d99-3d2f-4d20-9f32-37ee4b200bc5.jpg?v=1782573164","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/poetry-does-theology-9780268038694","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}