Theopoetics

"I want thus to make the following proposition: theology is not knowledge of God. How could we know God, if the sacred name is a secret? Theology is the poem we sing before this mysterious Absence, in order to resurrect the dead. Noth theo-logy: theo-poetics" - Rubem Alves "Theopoetics: Longing and Liberation"
"Good theology is a kind of transgression, a kind of excess, a kind of gift. It is not a smooth systematics, a dogmatics, or a metaphysics; as a theopoetics it is a kind of writing. It is a kind of writing that invites more writing. Its narratives lead to other narratives, its metaphors encourages new metaphors, its confessions more confssions... -Scott Holland from Theology Is a Kind of Writing
The God of liberation, however, is neither all-powerful nor a powerless sufferer. Rather God is potrayed as one who musr contend with strong and stubborn evil. God suffers, but in confrontation, not acquiescence. God i el dios pobre. - Harvey Cox. 'Religion in the secular city: toward a postmodern theology'
[Like Rilke] . . . we must learn, with trust, to be one with, a breathing with the inhale and exhale of Being, in order that "the god" may breathe through us, and we, through the translation of its breath into song, may be . . . the eyes of becoming and a tongue for Being's utterance.
--Stanley Hopper and David Miller
from Interpretation: The poetry of meaning
"Certainly it is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily." (from a letter Luther wrote to Eoban Hess)
"Emerging from the Seder, the Eucharist involves welcoming the invisible guest, opening the door for Ellijah"
- Nancy Eiesland "The Disabled God"
“First, the cross, and our memory of the cross, reminds us never to forget those hanging on it, i.e. never to ignore the plight of the crucified and the crossbearers. Second, God does not allow the story to end with the cross – there is resurrection after the cross. Third, the cross borne by the majority of the South African people was not in vain, because it can be retrospectively be seen as a special location of God’s compassionate presence, God’s solidarity and protest in history”