Poetry and Apocalypse: Theological Disclosures of Poetic Language (Cultural Memory in the Present)

In Poetry And Apocalypse, Franke Seeks To Find The Premises For Dialogue Between Cultures, Especially Religious Fundamentalisms - Including Islamic Fundamentalism - And Modern Western Secularism. He Argues That In Order To Be Genuinely Open, Dialogue Needs To Accept Possibilities Such As Religious Apocalypse In Ways That Can Be Best Understood Through The Experience Of Poetry. Franke Reads Christian Epic And Prophetic Tradition As A Secularization Of Religious Revelation That Preserves An Understanding Of The Essentially Apocalyptic Character Of Truth And Its Disclosure In History. The Usually Neglected Negative Theology That Undergirds This Apocalyptic Tradition Provides The Key To A Radically New View Of Apocalypse As At Once Religious And Poetic.--book Jacket. Apocalypse And The Breaking-open Of Dialogue : A Critical Negative Theology Of Poetic Language -- Linguistic Repetition As Theological Revelation In Christian Epic Tradition From Dante To Joyce -- Typological Re-origination And The Theological Vocation Of Poetry; Or, How To Read Finnegans Wake As The Culmination Of Christian Epic -- On The Possibility Of A Poetics Of Revelation Today : From Apocalyptic Theology To Postmodern Negative Theology. William Franke. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Here, Franke seeks to find the premises for dialogue between cultures, especially religious fundamentalisms and modern Western secularism. He argues that in order to be genuinely open, dialogue needs to accept possibilities such as religious apocalypse in ways that can be best understood through the experience of poetry