Allurement, Attention, and Action: Towards a Poetic Ecomissiology
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While ecomissiology has appeared in scholarly debates in recent decades, the approaches remain cognitively and constructively driven. An embodied and aesthetic approach through sensibility in the affective dimension remains missing in the field. This paper attempts to expand the existing academic methodologies of comissiology by introducing a poetic epistemology in relation to missio Dei towards creation. Contemplating the author’s bilingual poetry, the paper seeks to highlight three key creative threads in communion with creation (especially in the Australian landscape), in intercultural dialogue with theologians, missiologists, and mystics in the field: 1) enchanting Allurement; 2) meticulous Attention; and 3) ceaseless Action. It aims to demonstrate the holistic and cosmic nature of poetic ecomissiology that invites the immersion of ethereal beauty, ecstatic joy and eschatological hope.
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Allurement, Attention, and Action: Towards a Poetic Ecomissiology
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While ecomissiology has appeared in scholarly debates in recent decades, the approaches remain cognitively and constructively driven. An embodied and aesthetic approach through sensibility in the affective dimension remains missing in the field. This paper attempts to expand the existing academic methodologies of comissiology by introducing a poetic epistemology in relation to missio Dei towards creation. Contemplating the author’s bilingual poetry, the paper seeks to highlight three key creative threads in communion with creation (especially in the Australian landscape), in intercultural dialogue with theologians, missiologists, and mystics in the field: 1) enchanting Allurement; 2) meticulous Attention; and 3) ceaseless Action. It aims to demonstrate the holistic and cosmic nature of poetic ecomissiology that invites the immersion of ethereal beauty, ecstatic joy and eschatological hope.
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