Trees and Us: Poetic Metaphors and Pastoral Images

Capps, Donald

doi:10.1007/s11089-011-0338-7

Pastoral Psychol

2011

DOI: 10.1007/s11089-011-0338-7

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Trees and Us: Poetic Metaphors and Pastoral Images

Donald Capps

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“…This is not to say that there are no powerful alternatives in the tradition or those with unique relationships to nature and trees, such as HowardThurman (1979) and our own DonCapps (2011). For a recent plea for Christian animism, seeWallace (2019).…”

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Trees and the “Unthought Known”: The Wisdom of the Nonhuman (or Do Humans “Have Shit for Brains”?)

Miller-McLemore

2020

Pastoral Psychol

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Drawing on Richard Powers's Pulitzer-winning novel The Overstory (2018), this article explores the limits of human wisdom (or why humans persist in denying what we know about the earth, especially what we knew as children) and wisdom's bounty within the wider world, unknown, untapped, unprotected, and disrespected, with a particular focus on trees. It asks how people (the author included but especially white westerners) have come to disbelieve the intelligence of the nonhuman and, as a consequence, resist the ecological disaster wrought by our cherished obliviousness, and it argues for tree knowledge as a reasonable Christian claim, despite warnings that such claims reflect heresy. Influenced by Powers and Lewis Rambo, the essay asks about conversion-what will it take to convert us?-and suggests that pastoral theology's responsibilities include an embrace of seeing more through fiction and trees. Keywords Richard Powers . Peter Wohlleben . Lewis Rambo . Trees . Earth . Knowledge . Ecology . Environment . Conversion . Pastoral theology . . . the mountains and the hills before you shall burst into song, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.-Isaiah 55:12b (NRSV)Mary's correspondence with her scientist friends suggested the gentle Victorians of Vineland, and America for that matter, had shit for brains. They resisted Darwin's logic and rationality in general, to an extent that struck Willa as nuts. A great shift was dawning, with the human master's place in the kingdom much reduced from its former glory. She could see how this might lead to a sense of complete disorientation in the

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“…120-125; see also Joan M. Erikson 1988). This emphasis on perception is prefigured in my article BTrees and Us: Poetic Metaphors and Pastoral Images^ (Capps 2011), which uses poems about trees to develop the image of the pastor as the upholder of the community and of the individuals who comprise it.…”

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Imagining the Real: The Art of Poetry and the Art of Pastoral Attending

McDargh

2011

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This article explores the author's own engagement with poetry and with the multiple ways in which poetry may serve as a resource for the pastoral care giver. First, it considers poetry as a means of "tuning the ear" of the counselor to the client's use of metaphor and examines with the help of Mark Doty's moment-by-moment description of the creation of his poem "A Display of Mackerel" the parallel process of the unfolding of the meanings of metaphoric speech in closely attended-to pastoral conversation. Second, the relationships between focusing (Gendlin), and its associations with Christian meditation, and poetry are explored. Third, the article examines the psychological and spiritual significance of memorized poetry ("poems known by heart") by a close reading of a particular moment in a therapy session conducted by D.W. Winnicott and poems the author memorized at earlier stages in his life. Finally, it considers the power of finding a "soul friend" in particular poets

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Trees and Us: Poetic Metaphors and Pastoral Images

Cited by 5 publications

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Trees and the “Unthought Known”: The Wisdom of the Nonhuman (or Do Humans “Have Shit for Brains”?)

Trees and the “Unthought Known”: The Wisdom of the Nonhuman (or Do Humans “Have Shit for Brains”?)

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Imagining the Real: The Art of Poetry and the Art of Pastoral Attending

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