Climbing to God on “The Burning Ladder”

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" Climbing to God on “The Burning Ladder” "
Joshua Hren

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081930
Doc. No	:	LA125559
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02301006‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Joshua Hren
Title & Author	:	Climbing to God on “The Burning Ladder” [Article]\ Joshua Hren
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2019
Volume/ Issue Number	:	23/1-2
Page No	:	124–141
Abstract	:	Christian existentialism is a stepping stool by which we can approach Dana Gioia’s poems of doubt. Such poems—and here we will consider just one, “The Burning Ladder”—contain “an essentially religious irruption and claim, an agony of faith, the cry of the subjectivity towards its God,” and evince “a revelation of the person and of his anguish in the face of the nothingness which is non-being in the existent, the ‘crack in the existent’ ”; read alongside crucial works of Christian existentialism and mysticism, Gioia’s poem reveals these cracks as rungs on which the faithful lover can climb to God.
Descriptor	:	Art History
Descriptor	:	Catholic poetry
Descriptor	:	Christian existentialism
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Dana Gioia
Descriptor	:	History
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	via negativa
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02301006‬