A Theology of Literature by Franke William

Author:Franke, William [Franke, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781532611759
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published: 2017-07-25T07:00:00+00:00

The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

From the sole of the foot even unto the head

there is no soundness in it;

But wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores:

They have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified

with ointment. (Isa 1:5–6)

The dimension of poetry is essential to humanities texts in general, given their relative freedom from the matrices in which they originate and their susceptibility to being reappropriated ever again in new circumstances and different contexts. Aristotle noted that poetry possesses the universality of truth that is lacking to history (Poetics, chapter 7). And this is why poetry is essentially the medium of tradition—that is, of truth that must be found over and over again by succeeding generations and so establishes its universality. In this manner, the fundamental indeterminacy of meaning in poetic language becomes instrumental to the inexhaustible life of the traditional text.

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