My Theology: The Word Within The Words

A Poet’s Credo in which Malcom Guite sets out how his Christian Faith informs and underpins his poetry and in turn how poetry itself. And more widely the poetic imagination helps him to understand and interpret his faith. After a brief introduction outlining a theology of Christ as the Word the essential logos or meaning that underlies all things made flesh for us in Jesus.There are short chapters on Scripture, Liturgy, and Sacrament, each understood as a kind of poetry capable of transfiguring our vision and transforming our lives, and, in the light of these the final section of the book reflects on the all-transforming reality of Christ and the Kingdom not only within, but well beyond the bounds of the church. The theology in this book is illustrated throughout with some personal stories and with poetry, both classics from the cannon and Guite’s own poems.’