Genre:poetry
Sub-genre:Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious
Language:English
Series Title:Christian Poetry of the Sacred
Series Number:1
Pages:112
eBook ISBN:9781667850337
Paperback ISBN:9781667850320

Overview

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"A Beautiful Absurdity" is for all who find the great questions and mysteries of the human experience to be ultimately compelling. The poetry found within the pages of this book is a meditation on the radically transformative teachings and beliefs of Christian faith in today's ambiguous, secular societies. Themes such as pain, love, fear, faith, doubt, death, and hope are faced directly and in a contemplative way.

Description

The scandal of the Incarnation. The foolishness of the Cross. The beautiful absurdity of Christian faith in a profane world.

A Beautiful Absurdity is the first book in Dr. Alan Altany's Christian Poetry of the Sacred series, a contemplative meditation on the paradoxes, contradictions, and glorious absurdities at the heart of Christian belief.

With a Ph.D. in Religious Studies and a career teaching Comparative Religions, Dr. Altany brings theological rigor and poetic beauty to questions that have haunted believers for centuries: How can God die? How can suffering be redemptive? How can we believe what seems impossible?

His poetry published in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, North Dakota Quarterly, and other literary journals refuses easy answers, offering instead intellectually honest wrestling with mystery, grace, and the God who refuses to fit our categories.

This series has earned a 4.9 star rating from readers seeking contemplative depth.

Perfect for:
✓ Seminary students exploring theological poetry
✓ Catholic contemplatives and mystics
✓ MFA poetry students researching religious themes
✓ Readers tired of devotional clichés

One reader writes: "Many of these pieces leave me with chills."

The Complete Christian Poetry of the Sacred Series:
1. Poems to God (2025)
2. Intimations (2024)
3. The Greatest Longing (2023)
4. A Beautiful Absurdity (2022)

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About The Author

Dr. Alan Altany recently retired as a professor of Comparative Religions and holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. His poetry has been published in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, North Dakota Quarterly, Montreal Review, Valley Voices, and numerous other respected literary journals.

As a Catholic contemplative poet and theologian, Dr. Altany's work explores the sacred in contemporary consciousness, intimations of God in ordinary experience, and the "beautiful absurdity" of Christian faith in a profane culture. His four-book series, Christian Poetry of the Sacred, represents a lifetime of theological study and spiritual reflection, offering intellectually rigorous, mystically honest verse for readers seeking depth beyond devotional platitudes.

Dr. Altany's poetry has earned a 4.9 out of 5 star rating on Goodreads, with readers describing his work as "powerful poetry from a life lived, at times, at the extremes of God's grace and of his own weakness."

His complete series includes: