Tim Nichols wrote a fantastic article today about Theopoetics.
What are Theopoetics? Well, it is where I hope “theology” goes.
We must get away from studying God and the Bible as if they were science projects. They are not. But that is what theology does. Instead, Theopoetics invite us to relate to Scripture and God in ways that involve all the senses, using the full range of our creative abilities, rather than just spoken or written words.
Here is some of what Tim Nichols wrote:
Theopoetics is the appreciation of — no, the embodied luxuriating in — God’s words and works as art. The same God wrote the Bible as spoke the world, so theopoetics extends from the exegesis of Paul’s use of kosmos to the dancing of taste buds at breakfast this morning.
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