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Centuries (Paperback)
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Thomas Traherne (c. 1636–1674) was an English poet, clergyman, theologian, and religious writer. The present volume, his best known work, was first published in 1908 after having been miraculously discovered in manuscript ten years earlier. Perhaps more than any spiritual writer of his age, Traherne is profoundly cognizant of the Glory of the Lord as it abides in Creation. His writing conveys an ardent, almost childlike love of God comparable to similar themes in the works of such later poets as William Blake, Walt Whitman, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. More than this, he frequently expresses his love for the natural world in a way that anticipates by two centuries the Romantic movement.
In Traherne’s understanding, sin manifests itself primarily as the result of human ingratitude—in turn a result of not properly beholding the Creation—and offers in its stead something far more healthy and far more biblical: the gift of transfigured vision. The clandestine Gnosticism that has haunted Christianity since the Apostolic Age—that which whispers “the Creation is not our real home”—finds no place in Traherne’s theology. The cumulative effect of Traherne’s work is to open to the reader the insight that true felicity appears when we learn to see the world as it is, as God sees it.
Introduction: Michael Martin
Paperback. 244 pages.
Size: 5.25 x 0.61 x 8 (in)
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