{"product_id":"sacramental-poetics-at-the-dawn-regina-mara-schwartz-9780804758338","title":"Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism: When God Left the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism\u003c\/i\u003e asks what happened when the world was shaken by challenges to the sacred order as people had known it, an order that regulated both their actions and beliefs. When Reformers gave up the doctrine of transubstantiation (even as they held onto revised forms of the Eucharist), they lost a doctrine that infuses all materiality, spirituality, and signification with the presence of God. That presence guaranteed the cleansing of human fault, the establishment of justice, the success of communication, the possibility of union with God and another, and love. These longings were not lost but displaced, Schwartz argues, onto other cultural forms in a movement from ritual to the arts, from the sacrament to the sacramental. Investigating the relationship of the arts to the sacred, Schwartz returns to the primary meaning of \"sacramental\" as \"sign making,\" noting that because the sign always points beyond itself, it participates in transcendence, and this evocation of transcendence, of mystery, is the work of a sacramental poetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Regina Mara Schwartz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804758336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804758338\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.13w x 0.62d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/24\/2009 pg. 55\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2008 pg. 308","brand":"Regina Mara Schwartz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992453906687,"sku":"9780804758338","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3e511f9d-89f4-42c3-b64a-63c151c4cad1.jpg?v=1683319036","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sacramental-poetics-at-the-dawn-regina-mara-schwartz-9780804758338","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}