"As attention exercises, [Donne's poems] are aimed at allowing the speaker to think a religious doctrine with a certainty that is subjective and existential. In other words, they are meant to create a very specific kind of knowledge: faith."David Marno, Death be not proud: the art of holy attention, Class 200: new studies in religion (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016), 33. The headline comes from Calvin (whom, by the way, Marno has just quoted on p. 25).
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