Book Launch | Elizabeth Powell's "David Jones and the Craft of Theology"

Event time: 
Tuesday, November 3, 2020 - 12:30pm
Event Contact Name: 
Center for Catholic Studies at Durham University
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Event Description: 

Panel discussion for the launch of Elizabeth Powell’s David Jones and the Craft of Theology: Becoming Beauty. The panel will include Rowan Williams, Vittorio Montemaggi,and the author, and will be chaired by Prof. Kilby and Dr. Ferdia Stone-Davis. 

The event requires pre-registration at https://centreforcatholicstudies.eventbrite.com.

Book description: 

Through sustained attention to three artefacts by the

artist David Jones - a poem, a painted inscription, and a
wood engraving - Elizabeth’s book explores the
material, dialogical and performative character of
theological discourse. This engagement not only opens
up new ways of understanding David Jones’s art but
foregrounds the spiritual discipline of loving attention as
the heart of all craft, not least of all the craft of theology.