TY - BOOK AU - Brown,David TI - Gospel as work of art: imaginative truth and the open text SN - 9780802882820 AV - BR115.B877.G677 2024 PY - 2024/// CY - Grand Rapids, Michigan PB - William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company KW - Bible KW - Gospels KW - Art KW - Imagination KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Christianity and the arts N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 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 N2 - "An exploration of the gospel as an open text, surveying a range of Christian art and literature"-- ER -