Prophetic Poetry
Holy Agitation for Peace, Justice, and Passion
- Arts & Literature
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2010
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Publisher's Description
This poetry becomes an agent of transformation in offering a new direction for our lives. It provokes a little holy agitation by tossing poems like pebbles into placid pools of water to cause some waves. Such poetry gives us prophetic alerts to pay attention to things that matter, like peace not war, like economic and immigrant justice, like an earthy passion for life more than death. This book of poems describes a link between poets and peacemakers: Maybe peacemakers are like insurgent poets, Irrelevant, dissident, disregarding the status quo, Imagining a vision of a world that gets along This poetry--too dangerous for right wing religion--will offer a resource for church activists and for taking the next step of courage. It will be a companion for marching to a different drummer and hearing the still voice of God amplified through ordinary occasions.
Endorsements (1)
“In Prophetic Poetry Faust takes a creative approach to peacemaking and exposes our irrational, morally bankrupt addiction to violence and materialism. While challenging our comfortable lives, Prophetic Poetry offers an essential vision of our world if we wish, in Faust's words, to expose our 'false peace,' awaken the "shopper who walks around in a trance," and transform that which 'drains our soul of joy and life.' He uses 'the imagination of a poet… to touch the heart' and celebrates the passion and courage it will take to foster a 'revolution in values.”
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