Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-5wvtr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-17T02:45:40.886Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Creation, Icons, and the Language of Poetry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Original Article
Copyright
Copyright © 2016 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 For biblical quotations, I have used the New Revised Standard Version.

2 Barron, Robert, And Now I See: A Theology of Transformation (New York: Crossroad, 1998), p. 1Google Scholar.

3 De imaginibus, I, 9. I have taken the English translation from St John Damascene on Holy Images, trans. Allies, Mary H. (London: Thomas Baker, 1898), p. 10Google Scholar.

4 De Imaginibus, I, 4.

5 De imaginibus I, 4-5, 9; St John Damascene on Holy Images, p. 5.

6 Summa theologiae, IIa, q. 94, a. 1. For translations, I have generally followed Aquinas, Thomas, Summa theologiae (Cambridge: Blackfriars, 1964-1981)Google Scholar.

7 Marion, , God without Being: Hors-texte, trans. Carlson, Thomas A. (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1991), p. 14Google Scholar.

8 I borrow this illustration from Rea, Michael, “The Trinity,” in Flint, Thomas P. and Rea, Michael, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 407Google Scholar.

9 Marion, God without Being, p. 9.

10 Marion, God without Being, p. 21.

11 Marion, God without Being, pp. 17-18.

12 I borrow the concept of “ double vision ” from Guite, Malcolm, Faith, Hope, and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010), p. 104Google Scholar.

13 Marion, God without Being, p. 22.

14 Quintilian, Institutio, 8.6.19.

15 Cicero, De oratore, 3.40.161. English translation from Cicero on Oratory and Orators, trans. Watson, J.S. (London: Bell and Daldy, 1871), p. 378Google Scholar.

16 Aristotle, Poetics, 1459a.

17 Homer, , Iliad, vol. 1, trans. Murray, A.T. and Wyatt, William F. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999)Google Scholar, III: 154-158 (translation modified).

18 Aristotle, Rhetoric, 3.4.

19 Aristotle, Poetics, 1459a.

20 See note 12.

21 De imaginibus, III.21; St John Damascene on Holy Images, p. 96.

22 Aquinas, Summa theologiae, Ia, q. 4, a. 3.

23 Gilson, , L'esprit de la philosophie médiévale (Paris: J. Vrin, 1969), pp. 97-98Google Scholar.

24 Przywara, Erich, Analogia Entis: Metaphysics: Original Structure and Universal Rhythm, trans. Betz, John R. and Hart, David Bentley (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014), p. 233Google Scholar

25 Gilson, L'esprit, p. 98. See also the excellent discussion in Betz, John, “Beyond the Sublime: The Aesthetics of the Analogy of Being (Part Two),” Modern Theology 22.1 (2006): pp. 1-50CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

26 Carrasco, Iván, “Cántico cósmico de Cardenal: un texto interdisciplinario,” Estudios filológicos 39 (2004), paragraph 13Google Scholar.

27 Cardenal, Ernesto, Cántico cósmico, (Madrid: Editorial Trotta, 1993), p. 19Google Scholar. The translation is mine. Subsequent references to this text will be given parenthetically.

28 Aquinas, Summa theologiae, Ia, q. 42, a. 1 ad 1. See also Brock, Stephen L., “Causality and Necessity in Aquinas,” Quaestio 2 (2002): pp. 217-240CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

29 Huidobro, Vicente, “El creacionismo,” in Nelson Osorio T., , ed., Manifiestos, proclamas y polémicas de la vanguardia literaria hispanoamericana (Caracas: Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1988), p. 168Google Scholar.

30 Huidobro, Vicente, Altazor, trans. Weinberger, Eliot (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003), p. 71Google Scholar.

31 Richards, I.A., The Philosophy of Rhetoric (London: Oxford University Press, 1936), pp. 90-97Google Scholar.

32 Summa theologiae, Ia, q. 13, a. 2.

33 Turner, Faith, Reason, and the Existence of God, p. 211.

34 I borrow these examples from Turner, Faith, Reason, and the Existence of God, p. 235.