The game of the stone: A sermon on 1 Peter 2.1–8
This sermon addresses the question of the bodily senses and how they are related to one another, in connection with a eucharistic interpretation of 1 Peter 2.1–8, and an analysis of G. M. Hopkins’s sonnet, ‘As kingfishers catch fire’. These discussions are related to the tradition of the spiritual s...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2012
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| In: |
Theology
Year: 2012, Volume: 115, Issue: 3, Pages: 190-197 |
| Further subjects: | B
Spiritual Senses
B Presence B Absence B G. M. Hopkins |
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| Summary: | This sermon addresses the question of the bodily senses and how they are related to one another, in connection with a eucharistic interpretation of 1 Peter 2.1–8, and an analysis of G. M. Hopkins’s sonnet, ‘As kingfishers catch fire’. These discussions are related to the tradition of the spiritual senses and to a reappraisal of presence and absence. A link is made between concrete presence and particularity, on the one hand, and participation, on the other. Real presence is aligned with a perfect virtuality, and immediacy is seen as paradoxically borrowed; it always arrives from elsewhere, and yet this affirms rather than compromises its specificity. In this way, that which might be ‘stone-like’ and visible cannot be entirely commanded, and yet its visibility and lapidary quiddity, or thingness, is in no way derogated. |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2696 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0040571X11434672 |