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    Parable and Paradox
    Parable and Paradox
    Parable and Paradox
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    Parable and Paradox

    By Malcolm Guite

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    This follow-up to Sounding the Seasons offers a sequence of 50 sonnets that focus on many passages in the Gospels: the Beatitudes, parables and miracles, teachings on the Kingdom, and the hard sayings- Jesus' challenging demands with which we wrestle
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCanterbury Press
    Release dateSep 12, 2016
    ISBN9781848258617
    Parable and Paradox
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    Malcolm Guite

    Malcolm Guite is renowned throughout the English speaking church. He lectures widely on literature and theology in Britain and in North America and is the author of bestselling poetry collections and other books. His poetry blog has many thousands of regular readers www.malcolmguite.wordpress.com

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      Parable and Paradox - Malcolm Guite

      Also by Malcolm Guite and available from Canterbury Press

      Sounding the Seasons

      Seventy Sonnets for the Christian Year

      978 1 84825 274 5

      ‘These pieces have the economy and pungency of all good sonnets and offer deep resources for prayer and meditation.’ Rowan Williams

      The Singing Bowl

      Collected poems

      978 1 84825 541 8

      ‘A beautiful collection … a resounding success, timeless and yet shot through with contemporary references … Whether used for private devotion, or public prayer, this book will enhance your discipleship. Unreservedly recommended.’ New Directions

      Waiting on the Word

      A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

      978 1 84825 800 6

      ‘To this interesting and careful thematic collection of poems Guite’s sensitive exposition is generously added, which is where the tremendous value of the book lies.’ Transpositions

      Word in the Wilderness

      A Poem a Day for Lent and Easter

      978 1 84825 678 1

      ‘a soul-food feast’ Goodreads

      Parable and Paradox

      Malcolm Guite

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      © Malcolm Guite 2016

      First published in 2016 by the Canterbury Press Norwich

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      Canterbury Press is an imprint of Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd

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      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,

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      the publisher, Canterbury Press.

      The Author has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the Author of this Work

      Bible quotations for the 50 Sonnets are from the Authorized Version of the Bible (The King James Bible), the rights in which are vested in the Crown, are reproduced by permission of the Crown’s Patentee, Cambridge University Press.

      Other quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Anglicized Edition, copyright © 1989, 1995 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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      Contents

      Preface and Acknowledgements

      Everything Holds Together

      For Scott Cairns

      Pilgrimage

      Ode to St Cecilia

      The Baton

      Smoke Rings from My Pipe

      And is it Not Enough?

      On Prebend’s Bridge, Durham

      Cuthbert’s Gospel

      Bible Study

      A Sonnet for the Unseen

      Four Saints

      I St Valentine

      II St Patrick

      III St John of the Cross

      IV Nicholas Ferrar

      Launde Abbey on St Lucy’s Day

      In Praise of Decay

      Because We Hunkered Down

      For Luci Shaw

      A Lament for Lost Words

      Hospitality

      In the Wilderness

      I Abraham and Sarah at Mamre

      II Jacob Wrestles with the Angel

      III Paul Blinded Being Led into Damascus

      IV Abba Moses the Black

      V Christ Among the Refugees

      The Naming of Jesus

      Parable and Paradox: 50 Sonnets on the Sayings of Jesus

      ‘He who has ears to hear let him hear’

      Repent

      Beatitudes

      As If

      Like Unto Leaven

      So Loved the World

      The Least of All Seeds

      It’s Not Fair!

      Be Opened

      Whoever Welcomes

      Get Thee Behind Me, Satan

      The Words of Life

      A Sword

      Better to Enter Life Maimed

      Sell All You Have

      The Mammon of Unrighteousness

      The Good Samaritan

      Imagine

      Good Measure

      The Sower

      By the Sword

      Five Dialogues on the Two Great Commandments

      I With All Your Heart

      II With All Your Soul

      III With All Your Strength

      IV With All Your Mind

      V Your Neighbour As Yourself

      Before Abraham Was, I AM

      The Seven ‘I AM’ Sayings

      I AM the Bread of Life

      I AM the Light of the World

      I AM the Door of the Sheepfold

      I AM the Good Shepherd

      I AM the Resurrection

      I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life

      I AM the Vine

      A Grain of Wheat

      Let Not Your Hearts Be Troubled

      Seven Sonnets on the Lord’s Prayer

      Our Father

      Hallowed Be Thy Name

      Thy Kingdom Come

      Daily Bread

      Forgive Us As We Forgive

      Lead Us Not Into Temptation, But Deliver Us From Evil

      Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory

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