David Jones: Deep Calls to Deep

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February 15, 2022 | As a child, the artist David Jones (1895-1974) heard his mother, a gifted painter herself, ask her Quaker doctor why it was that Quakers had no sacraments. He replied, “But Mrs. Jones, surely the whole of life is a sacrament.” Rev. Hester Jones’ presentation will explore some of the ways in which the whole of life, when represented through the artist’s transforming lens, becomes sacramental for David Jones. This sense of unity at the heart of things underpins all of Jones’ thought, and it is a response to the integrating vision of Samuel Coleridge, John Ruskin, and above all, the understanding of sacramental inscape in the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins. The talk will indicate how that densely physical sign is frequently configured in the image of the all-encompassing “deep,” encircling, eluding, and transcending the historical realm within which such sacrificial actions take place.

For Jones, “the deep” is also associated with authenticity, Celticity, beginnings, and often the close embrace of a feminine figure or symbol. It is fluid and contradictory - the place both of trial and of transcendence. The deep exists in tense relation with, and sometimes in opposition to, the forceful march of time associated in Jones’ mind with Roman Imperium, or with all-conquering movements. In her presentation, Rev. Jones will suggest that David Jones plays fruitfully with the fluctuating meanings of depth, both the deep sea and the rich deposits of time, and in this respect has more in common with postmodern theology than might be imagined. Michael Scott, director of the Future of the Humanities Project, will provide opening and closing remarks, and Rev. Joseph Simmons, S.J., will moderate a Q&A session following the presentation.

This event is sponsored by the Future of the Humanities Project; the Georgetown Humanities Initiative; the Georgetown Master’s Program in the Engaged and Public Humanities; Campion Hall, Oxford; and the Las Casas Institute (Blackfriars Hall, Oxford). It is part of a two-year-long series on the Christian Literary Imagination.

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