Poems Written in a Time of Plague by Vivian, Tim

Poems Written in a Time of Plague (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781725283213)

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Poems Written in a Time of Plague by Vivian, Tim

Poems Written in a Time of Plague

$35.00
Poems Written in a Time of Plague by Vivian, Tim

Poems Written in a Time of Plague

$35.00
Format: Hardcover
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Plague is both metaphor and physical presence. The poems in this volume, written between January and June of 2020, address the plagues of COVID-19; racism, police brutality; and political indifference, ineptness, and malfeasance. The poems offer the hope that the first plague has taught us about the good fruits of compassion and community and that the continuing nonviolent protests in the United States over the second plague, racism, will help birth a resurrection in the hearts, minds, and souls of all Americans, a new Easter. The twentieth-century theologian Karl Barth astutely said, ""The pastor and his congregation should not imagine that they are a religious society that is fixated [only] on certain themes, but that they live in this world. We do indeed need, according to my old formulation, the Bible and the newspaper."" With the poems in this volume, the author, newspaper in hand, reflects on events from January to early June 2020 and does so by integrating reflections on Scripture with current events.

Author: Tim Vivian
ISBN-10: 1725283212
ISBN-13: 9781725283213
Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
Language: English
Published: 08/19/2020
Pages: 162
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d
By Tim Vivian
By Tim Vivian
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Tim Vivian is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at California State University Bakersfield and a retired Episcopal priest. He received three degrees in literature before an interdisciplinary PhD from UC Santa Barbara and an MDiv. from Church Divinity School of the Pacific (Episcopal) and was a post-doctoral fellow at Yale Divinity School. He has published numerous books, articles, and book reviews on early Christian monasticism. His first book of poems is Other Voices, Other Rooms (Wipf & Stock).

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