{"product_id":"diction-ii-instructor-edition-a-dictionary-of-benediction-paperback","title":"Diction II (Instructor Edition): A Dictionary of Benediction - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. A. Gucci\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when faith is approached not as belief, but as structure?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDiction II: The Paradox of Faith\u003c\/em\u003e examines articles of faith through their correspondence with observable phenomena. Rather than explaining faith through doctrine, confession, symbolism, or argument, J. A. Gucci turns to the physical world: systems that persist, transform, fracture, return, conceal, release, and endure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach entry begins with a named article of faith and places it in structural correspondence with a physical system, event, condition, or transformation. The phenomenon remains literal. Water remains water. Light behaves as light. A root remains a root. Meaning emerges not through symbolic substitution, but through the observable relationships within the composition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten according to the principles of Absolute Composition, the poems are built through compression, observable relation, structural correspondence, threshold behavior, and transformation through arrangement. Causes may be withheld, transitions may occur within white space, and mechanisms may remain unstated, but the governing structure remains recoverable. Interpretation is possible, but structure comes first.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach composition concludes with a benediction. The benediction does not explain the poem, resolve its tension, or provide a moral. It emerges from the behavior already present, carrying the conditions of the composition beyond observation and into possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrganized in two sections-\u003cem\u003eThe Arc of Faith\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Consequences of Faith\u003c\/em\u003e-the collection moves from the conditions through which faith forms, persists, and becomes observable to what follows when faith enters relation with loss, judgment, suffering, mercy, time, and change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is neither doctrine nor confession, but a structural examination of faith under uncertainty: what persists without proof, what changes without abandoning its nature, and what becomes recognizable when explanation reaches its limit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe world speaks first. The benediction follows.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 108\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 22, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67981532102910,"sku":"9781972788561","price":26.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0826\/8716\/4670\/files\/VpFUtXxhFG9781972788561.webp?v=1793807650","url":"https:\/\/123learningstore.com\/products\/diction-ii-instructor-edition-a-dictionary-of-benediction-paperback","provider":"123 Learning Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}