Prophetic Witness and the Reimagining of the World

Mark S. Burrows is Professor of Religion and Literature at the University of Applied Sciences in Bochum, Germany. Recent publications include two volumes of German poetry in translation: Rainer Maria Rilke's Prayers of a Young Poet (2013) and the German-Iranian poet SAID's 99 Psalms (2013); a forthcoming volume of his recent poems, The Chance of Home, will be published in 2016. Jean Ward is Professor of English Literature at the Institute of English and American Studies, Gdansk University, Poland. Her publications include Christian Poetry in the Post-Christian Day: Geoffrey Hill, R. S. Thomas, Elizabeth Jennings (2009) and a translation of Tadeusz Slawek's monograph, Henry David Thoreau - Grasping the Community of the World (2014). Malgorzata Grzegorzewska is Professor of English Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. Her most recent book is entitled George Herbert and Post-Phenomenology: A Gift for Our Times (2016).