%0 Journal Article %T Poetics/Praxis: Materiality and the Meaningfulness of Experience %A Kimberly Johnson %J Christianity & Literature %@ 2056-5666 %D 2019 %R 10.1177/0148333119827677 %X This Introduction to a special issue on ¡°Poetics/Praxis¡± provides a brief overview of the shared investments of poetic texts and Christian practice. It offers a brief survey of exegetical writing on the incarnation in order to illustrate sympathies between early Christian thinking about the meaningfulness of materiality and theoretical accounts of poetic structure %K Incarnation %K poetics %K materiality %K form %K structure %K ritual %K Alcuin %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0148333119827677