Ed Block

“this need to dance / this need to kneel”

Arts & Literature

“It is a joy and reassurance to see and know that Denise Levertov, her life, her work, and her deep but complex spirituality continue to inspire sensitive, scholarly reflection. That the editors and contributors continue to find such jewels of wisdom in Levertov’s religious poems, and in her ‘incarnational poetics of faith’ bespeaks her continued value for the twenty-first century and beyond.”

A Generous Symphony

Theology

“A Generous Symphony is a knowing and authoritative study of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s theology of literature. As sweeping as its subject—from Homer and the Greek tragedians to Dostoevsky,Gerard Manley Hopkins, Peguy, and Bernanos— A Generous Symphony engages a host of relevant contemporary scholarship and provides a nuanced and never-merely-adulatory understanding of Balthasar’s work. This book represents an important, forward-looking contribution to the study of the relationship between Christianity and literature, and Balthasar’s place in that conversation.”

Placed People

“Placed People opens new lines of inquiry relating to the lives and works of three significant twentieth-century apologists for a return to more thoughtful and sustainable relationships to the earth, God, and human communities . . . Harden's religious and value-sensitive examination of economy, ecology, ethics, and the humanities in Chesterton, Lewis, and Berry suggests paths to understanding human beings' 'placed' relationship in a rapidly changing world.”