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This paper explores how poetry can shape and enrich our biblical reading practices by examining three poems by three well-known contemporary poets—Scott Cairns, Mary Szybist, and Lucille Clifton.
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Why is it important?
Reading the Bible fruitfully often turns to academic commentaries for understanding, but what are other sources for deepening our engagement with Scripture? Works of art and literature can open up new ways of reading the Bible, often with illumination and sensitivity to nuances that complements the more formal treatment of biblical texts which we gain from commentaries.
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Religious faith remains one of the most prominent commitments of human beings worldwide, whose visions of life continue to inspire some of the most remarkable works of the imagination created. I have devoted my scholarly work to the exploration of how literature and faith intersect and deepen our encounters with the literary as well as the religious imagination, and as a result, encourage human flourishing.
David Mahan Mahan
Yale University
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This page is a summary of: Revised Versions, Christianity & Literature, February 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0148333119827312.
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