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In The Incarnation of the Poetic Word, Michael Martin brings together the worlds of theology, philosophy, and literary studies through the introduction of agapeic criticism, a method of inquiry characterized by reverence and attention, exploring what truly lives in the written word.Michael Martin is one of those rare modern scholars who allows his speculative, artistic, and imaginative gifts to enliven and enrich his scholarship without any sacrifice of rigor.DAVID BENTLEY HART, author of The Experience of God and Atheist DelusionsMichael Martin is a poet, a theologian, and a person of philosophical inclinationall of these roles diversely, and all of them communicating with each other in his rich writings. This, his plurivocal vocation, is given expression in The Incarnation of the Poetic Word.WILLIAM DESMOND, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; Villanova University, USAWith its persuasive emphasis on recovering the contemplative, Michael Martins The Incarnation of the Poetic Word, by turns prophetic, rapt, practical, and delightfully irreverent, plays adroitly at the frontiers of literature, philosophy, and theologyall in a poetic idiom. Martins is a manifestly original voice that calls unabashedly for a posture of wonder, gratitude, and attention.JENNIFER NEWSOME MARTIN, University of Notre DameMichael Martins The Incarnation of the Poetic Word is a glimpse at the vision of one of the most exciting and creative scholars of our age. These are essays in phenomenology and criticism, but for me they are much more about cultivating the habits of intellect and affect that will leave us open, make us receptive, to the shiningout of Wisdom in the world around us. Martin summons us to move from the fistclenched management of knowledgeproduction to the openpalmed receptivity that shares in Sophias generative light.KEVIN L. HUGHES, Villanova UniversityIn Michael Martins The Incarnation of the Poetic Word, we encounter a uniquely Sophianic confluence of philosophy, theology, and poetry, not as objects of study, but as transparent, so that we can see as if for the first time what shines through them. Savor this challenging and valuable book.ARTHUR VERSLUIS, author of Theosophia and Wisdoms ChildrenThe world needs Michael Martins The Incarnation of the Poetic Word; it is a transformational work of rare artistry, intelligence, prayerfulness, and depth.THERESE SCHROEDERSHEKER, The Chalice of Repose ProjectThe Incarnation of the Poetic Word reminds us that, to the integrated human person, Knowing and Being cannot be separated, and consequently that Poetry, Philosophy, and Theology are like facets of a single diamond, because the Truth is One. The book breathes an air of St. Thomass claritas, the intrinsic unity of aesthetic and intellectual contemplation. Triviality, bathos, studied meaninglessness, skill without purpose, craft without Patron, verbal warmaking without just cause, are definitively ruled out as having any place in the art of poetry. May they never return.CHARLES UPTON, author of What Poets Used to Know