Gospel as work of art : imaginative truth and the open text /

Brown, David, 1948 July 1-

Gospel as work of art : imaginative truth and the open text / [print] David Brown. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2024. 2024 - xxviii, 572 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm



Meaning and an open text -- Imaginative truth in theory and in art -- Truth in a changing narrative -- Through prayer and people -- Mystical and natural -- Responding to inherited traditions -- Why a gospel at all? -- Layers of revelation -- Miracle as symbol and sign -- Variety in parable and teaching -- Death and the exhaustion of metaphor -- The resurrected Lord and the Spirit -- The openness of faith.

"An exploration of the gospel as an open text, surveying a range of Christian art and literature"--

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Bible.--Gospels--Art.


Imagination--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Christianity and the arts.

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