Review of Mark Sinclair, ed., “Félix Ravaisson: selected essays”

Book review for Literature and Theology.

Poetry and Revelation: For a Phenomenology of Religious Poetry. By Kevin Hart. London
and New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. xii + 329pp. Hardback, $114, £85.

The poem ‘Colloquies’ by Australian poet Kevin Hart can be read as a literary elaboration of Rabbi Isaac the Blind’s theory of divine white writing. ‘Colloquies’ finds white writing in the pages of God s three books—scripture, nature, and time—and depicts the difficulty of understanding and responding to this obscure mode of revelation.…[Read more]