God of Dirt: Mary Oliver and the Other Book of God

by Thomas W. Mann

Overview

In this engaging study, the author compares Mary Oliver's poetry and traditional religious language and provides a fresh perspective from which to enjoy her work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781561013357
Publisher:	Cowley Publications
Publication date:	06/25/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	77
File size:	936 KB

About the Author

THOMAS W. MANN has been minister of Parkway United Church of Christ in Winston-Salem, NC for twenty years, and has taught religion and Old Testament at Wake Forest University, Salem College, Converse College, and Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author of several books including The Book of Torah: The Narrative Integrity of the Pentateuch (1988) and Deuteronomy (Westminster Bible Companion, 1995).

What People are Saying About This

Mary Oliver

I feel very honored by this book and am made happy by it, as Thomas Mann has expressed so well what I have been about these last decades.

Editorial Reviews

I feel very honored by this book and am made happy by it, as Thomas Mann has expressed so well what I have been about these last decades.

Mary Oliver

His insight is keen.. .. Mann does not shy from going with Oliver into nature’s apparent cruelty—what we humans, by our morals, consider cruelty, that is—by which so much of the animal world survives.. .. Drawing our attention to the violence and to God forces the reader to contemplate God’s role in our world and our role in God’s.

Winston-Salem Journal - Beth Woodward

His insight is keen. . . . Mann does not shy from going with Oliver into nature's apparent cruelty--what we humans, by our morals, consider cruelty, that is--by which so much of the animal world survives. . . . Drawing our attention to the violence and to God forces the reader to contemplate God's role in our world and our role in God's.--Beth Woodward "Winston-Salem Journal"

I feel very honored by this book and am made happy by it, as Thomas Mann has expressed so well what I have been about these last decades.--Mary Oliver

From the Publisher

His insight is keen. . . . Mann does not shy from going with Oliver into nature’s apparent cruelty—what we humans, by our morals, consider cruelty, that is—by which so much of the animal world survives. . . . Drawing our attention to the violence and to God forces the reader to contemplate God’s role in our world and our role in God’s.

Winston-Salem Journal - Beth Woodard

His insight is keen. . . . Mann does not shy from going with Oliver into nature’s apparent cruelty—what we humans, by our morals, consider cruelty, that is—by which so much of the animal world survives. . . . Drawing our attention to the violence and to God forces the reader to contemplate God’s role in our world and our role in God’s.
— Beth Woodard

Winston-Salem Journal