Geoffrey Hill’s Poetic Incarnational Theology

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" Geoffrey Hill’s Poetic Incarnational Theology "
Jesse Russell

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081952
Doc. No	:	LA125581
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02401002‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Jesse Russell
Title & Author	:	Geoffrey Hill’s Poetic Incarnational Theology [Article]\ Jesse Russell
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2020
Volume/ Issue Number	:	24/1-2
Page No	:	110–131
Abstract	:	Geoffrey Hill’s poems are saturated with the cluttered bleakness of the nihilistic view of the natural world, but in Hill’s own Christian incarnational theology it is precisely this filthy world into which Christ was incarnated in order to redeem humans from Original Sin. Fortified with but also rattled by the Incarnation and the doctrine of Original Sin, in his poems Hill is faced with the profound, agonizing existential choice to embrace Christ or reject Christianity as a farce, and it is this perilous pose that serves as the theological grounding of the oeuvre the man who now, sadly, was the greatest contemporary Christian poet.
Descriptor	:	Art History
Descriptor	:	Christianity
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Geoffrey Hill
Descriptor	:	History
Descriptor	:	incarnation
Descriptor	:	nihilism
Descriptor	:	postmodernism
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02401002‬