Description Description: George Herbert, in his poetic skill and the depth of the spiritual experiences he explores, may be the greatest of all religious poets. -Christopher Hodgkins, University of North Carolina at Greensboro -Co-Founder, The George Herbert Society -Author, Authority, Church, and Society in George Herbert: Return to the Middle Way Veith\'s book is a scrupulous and sensitive reading of the protestant Spirituality underlying much o. "Is there in truth no beauty?" Herbert provocatively asks in "Jordan I." Veith\'s emphatic answer is, Very much indeed.
Theologically alert, historically aware, and artistically generous, Veith\'s book helped to dispel many foggy and anachronistic notions about Tudor-Stuart religion when it first appeared a generation ago, and its strong, steady light still shines.
Endorsements: For the reader who wants to understand George Herbert\'s unique Protestant aesthetic, Gene Veith\'s Reformation Spirituality is indispensible reading.
Just as Reformation Spirituality reflects Herbert\'s poetry, Herbert\'s poetry illuminates Reformation spirituality, showing the experiential and mystical dimensions of an important religious tradition.
This study presents Reformation Spirituality phenomenologically, from the inside.
Reformation spirituality, which was different both from medieval Catholicism and late Protestantism, is itself little understood by literary historians, who have tended to look to medieval or Counter-Reformation ideas and practices or to a simplistic distinction between "Anglicans" and "Puritans" as ways of understanding the religion of the time.
As such, it also examines the spiritual landscape of seventeenth-century England, a period, for all of its controversies, still dominated by the understanding of God and the human condition articulated by Martin Luther and systematized by John Calvin.
This is a study of the specific religious experiences and beliefs that Herbert writes about, both in his poetry and in his prose.
Description Description: George Herbert, in his poetic skill and the depth of the spiritual experiences he explores, may be the greatest of all religious poets
