Incarnate
Poems of God in humanity
Incarnate is a collection in progress, mostly written since 2003. It has not been published in print form.
What does it mean when we say that "God is with us"?
Orthodox Christian doctrine is
that God became human in Jesus Christ and lives on in his
church through
the Holy Spirit, so that his church is now his "body" on
earth.
Much
older is the Genesis claim that all humankind is made "in
God's
image", so that in some sense we are all god-like, whether we like it
or
not.
Only
the
dullest will not recognise a spiritual dimension to humanity. How do
our
physical and spiritual realities co-exist?
These poems were not written with a specific agenda, but one of my preoccupations in recent years has been to test the claims and questions above against the evidence of experience, and Incarnate takes its shape from that.
In
his hands
A
brief history of God
Four
eulogies:
Remembrance (for Michael
Adams)
All the stops
(for Margaret Creasy)
Questions
(for John Duckworth)