The interplay between faith and poetry is central to this work, as Malcom Guite explores how his Christian beliefs shape his poetic expression. Through personal anecdotes and a selection of classic and original poems, he illustrates the profound connection between the poetic imagination and spiritual understanding, revealing how each informs and enriches the other.
Exploring the poetic imagination, this book highlights its role in enhancing our understanding of reality and contemporary issues. Through critical analyses of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon times to today, Malcolm Guite emphasizes poetry's contribution to religious knowledge and theology. Readers will gain fresh insights and renewed enthusiasm for poetry, encouraging them to incorporate imaginative approaches into their academic and intellectual endeavors.
A corona is a crown, the pearly glow around the sun in certain astronomical conditions and a poetic form where interlinking lines connect a sequence. It is the perfect name therefore for this new collection of 150 poems by the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite, each one written in response to the Bible's 150 psalms.
'A splendid celebration of the grizzled figure who stoppeth one of three and the tragic artist who created him' - The Times
Whether through suspicion or ignorance, serious consideration of what Mary can teach us has been lacking in large swathes of the church for some time. Drawing on careful biblical exegesis, church history and ecumenical thinking, this book suggests how a serious understanding of Mary might influence our ethical thought, and considers some of the key theological tensions at the heart of the church's engagement with Mary.
Malcolm Guite, a prominent Christian thinker, delves into key theological beliefs, offering insights into foundational tenets of Christianity. Through his exploration, he presents a personal perspective on faith, engaging with complex ideas while making them accessible to a broader audience. The work invites readers to reflect on their own beliefs and the essence of Christian doctrine, bridging the gap between academic theology and personal spirituality.
Malcolm Guite, a poet and priest, offers a transformative collection of 70 lectionary readings reimagined as inspiring poems. This expanded edition features additional sonnets for the Christian year, highlighting a sequence of 19 sonnets that explore the resurrection appearances in scripture. Guite's work merges faith and artistry, inviting readers to reflect on spiritual themes through the lens of poetry.
Offers reflections on each of the nineteen resurrection appearances of Jesus from the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite and the much admired writer and bishop, Guli Francis-Dehqani, accompanied by colour illustrations from the priest-artist Iain McKillop.
The back page column of the Church Times, famously occupied for many years by Ronald Blythe, continues to be a breath of fresh air in the hands of poet and priest Malcolm Guite. His acute observations of the local, the everyday, moments of conversation and life’s simple pleasures are doorways into a bigger reality of a world suffused with the meaning and beauty that lies beneath surface appearances. His lucid, perceptive and imaginative musings follow a similar pattern to the sonnets for which he is so renowned. In his own words, he treats these 500 word essays ‘a little in the spirit of the sonnet, with a sense of development, of a ‘turn’ or volta part way through, and a sense that the end revisits and re-reads the opening’. These draw together everyday events and encounters, landscape, journeys, poetry, stories, memory and a sense of the sacred, and fuses them to create richly satisfying portraits of the familiar that at the same time opens the way to an enchanted world.