Toronto Inter-Faculty Colloquiahttp://hdl.handle.net/10756/3462912024-01-19T11:01:58Z2024-01-19T11:01:58ZRejoinder to 'Seeing Beyond the Scenery': Exploring the World Through MetaphorSweetman, Roberthttp://hdl.handle.net/10756/3462472019-08-30T09:54:48Z2013-03-27T00:00:00ZRejoinder to 'Seeing Beyond the Scenery': Exploring the World Through Metaphor
Sweetman, Robert
Response to the paper "Seeing Beyond the Scenery': Exploring the World Through Metaphor" presented by Deborah Bowen at the March 27, 2013, Toronto Inter-Faculty Colloquium.; Dr. Bowen responds to Dr. Sweetman with: Bowen, Deborah. "'Seeing Beyond the Scenery': Exploring the World Through Metaphor. Responding to Bob Sweetman's Response at the ICS Colloquium, Wed. Mar. 27, 2013. (paper presented at the Centre for Philosophy, Religion and Social Ethics, 'Toronto Inter-Faculty Colloquium, March 27, 2013, Toronto, Ontario)[http://hdl.handle.net/10756/346292]
2013-03-27T00:00:00Z'Seeing Beyond the Scenery': Exploring the World Through MetaphorBowen, Deborahhttp://hdl.handle.net/10756/3462922019-08-30T09:53:32Z2013-03-27T00:00:00Z'Seeing Beyond the Scenery': Exploring the World Through Metaphor
Bowen, Deborah
Metaphor has been called a 'form of listening.' In its enacting of a hinge between language and the beyond of language, metaphor points to something bigger than language that Christians might call the glory of God revealed in the material world by common grace (Ps.19.1-4, Rom.1.20). Two contemporary poets who pay particularly careful attention to the matter of the world are John Terpstra, a Christian writing a kind of 'lectio divina' about the abused body of the earth in south-western Ontario, and Don McKay, Canada's premier 'nature poet,' who describes 'the disturbing thrilling awareness that there really is a world outside language, which, creatures of language ourselves, we translate with difficulty.' Thus, despite different belief commitments, both these poets create what Madeleine L'Engle calls 'icons of the true' that open new windows onto God's glory.
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