The Christ Cycle in Verse and 3D
Reflections as Stations of the Life and Legacy of Christ in Verse and Sculpture
- Arts & Literature
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2025
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Publisher's Description
The Christ Cycle in Verse and 3D is a collection of sixty-five poems on the life and ministry of Christ with thirty-two images of sculpture, also by Toddy Hoare, as stations to be pauses for thought. They are there in tandem as hors d'oeuvres to prompt reflection and digestion of the Word made flesh. While this book does not require a theology degree to read it, it should appeal to those with one or those using the Bible for study, prayer, and worship, or as a resource for quiet days.
Endorsements (4)
“Toddy Hoare brings an unusual combination of interests and gifts to the interpretation of faith through art. He combines a lifetime of pastoral and theological experience as a priest with artistic and literary talents. Here he meditates in bronze. In this concise and splendidly illustrated text introducing his own work, he shows how the medium of monumental sculpture may frame its own commentary on the profound propositions of sacred Scripture.”
“Toddy Hoare has an astonishing ability to provide new perspectives on familiar passages from the Bible. Sometimes he does that through sculpture, and sometimes through poetry. In this book he does both. If you want to be inspired afresh by what you thought you knew well, then this is a book to catalyze the process for you.”
“I searched for the right compliment for Toddy, and I’d say that the knowledge that Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Eighteenth Baron Dunsany would have disapproved of Toddy is as good as it gets. Although a lifetime of years apart, they both were military men. They were both bigger than life (Dunsany, literally six feet four inches), and both had poverty of spirit—a distinct advantage if one wants to own the kingdom of heaven in the life to come. Why, then, would Dunsany have disapproved of this latter-day representative? The answer is that Dunsany was a poet, too—but, alas, a bloody awful one. Both have experience of the untamed wildness of thought which overflows into unusual turns of phrase—but Toddy can hold a line and make it his in poetry. How cross Lord Dunsany would have been with him!”
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