Undiminished Returns: Poems of a Christian Life
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
This arrangement of poems spans the life of a Christian, beginning with the uncertainty, frustration, and doubts before coming to faith in Christ, through to the triumph of the gospel in life and in death. Undiminished Returns is a pilgrimage of poems testifying to the transformative power of grace, love, and hope that is found in Christ alone. Rich in poetic language yet clear and accessible, this book of poems will encourage and challenge both believers and non-believers in their search for meaning, value, and identity in an unsettled world that has lost sight of the Truth, Beauty, and Goodness of the Creator.
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- Presents a series of poems that spans the life of a Christian
- Testifies to the transformative power of grace, love, and hope that is found in Christ alone
- Encourages and challenges both believers and non-believers in their search for meaning, value, and identity
Undiminished Returns is a deeply satisfying collection of poems— formally, psychologically, and spiritually. Charting the pilgrim path with candour and with a cadence and rhythm which capture the spirit as well as the body of being a believer, Jeremy W. Johnston opens up the private world of deeply held faith in a way which is at once unaffectedly personal, and touchingly universal. There are echoes here of Herbert, Bunyan, and Hopkins, all flowing into an original voice whose range can convey to us the grandeur of God, the sorrow of sin, and the fearful beauty of salvation in Christ Jesus. These are poems to turn the heart heavenwards, pieces which both capture what is easily seen, and highlight what is easily missed in Christian spirituality. These poems are a joy to read, and will be returned to again and again for their lyricism, thoughtfulness, and God-glorifying focus.
--Andrew Roycroft, poet, blogger at thinkingpastorally.com, and pastor of Millisle Baptist Church in Northern Ireland
It is in the very nature of poetry that it offers undiminished returns. You can return to the same poem over and over and find that it is richer and has more to offer on each return, indeed one poem, in the midst of such returns, often generates another. So it is with this fine collection from Jeremy W. Johnston; he has returned us to the classic form of the sonnet and taken inspiration from the likes of George Herbert and Christina Rossetti, and in doing so he has crafted a collection of beautiful and thought-provoking new poetry. This return to formal verse is not a repetition but a renewal.
--Malcolm Guite, poet, musician, Chaplain at Girton College, Cambridge, and the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, including Sounding the Seasons, After Prayer, and Mariner: A Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What does it mean to believe and be haunted by doubt? Or to doubt yet be haunted by belief? Johnston’s poems, evidence of a life steeped in words and the Word, give voice to a secular condition illat-ease with our freedom and autonomy from God. In an age of irony, Johnston’s direct, sincere voice provides one healing word after another.
--Doug Sikkema, a regular contributor to Comment magazine and assistant Professor of English and Core Humanities at Redeemer University
- Title: Undiminished Returns: Poems of a Christian Life
- Author: Jeremy_W._Johnston
- Publisher: Hesed & Emet
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Pages: 162
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781989174616, 1989174612
- Resource ID: LLS:NDMNSHDRTRNSCLF
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-12T23:43:53Z