Tradition and imagination : revelation and change /

Revelation is seen as a gift from God given only once. David Brown challenges this idea by examining the effect cultural development has on religious belief, narrative, and art, and exploring the nature of the relationship between historical and imaginative truth. This book argues that post-canonica...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brown, David, 1948 July 1-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Bible > Evidences, authority, etc.
Bible > Preuves, autorité, etc.
Bible.
Revelation.
Bible and tradition.
Révélation.
Bible et tradition.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > General.
Authority > Religious aspects.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Narrative and enlightenment: the challenge of postmodernism
  • The hermeneutics of Pentecost and crib
  • Continuing revelation: learning from Judaism and Islam
  • Heroic transformation in the classical world
  • Victim into saint: patriarchal retellings
  • Divine accommodation
  • Art as revelation.

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