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.