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Text & psyche : experiencing Scripture today / Schuyler Brown.
LIBRA BS476 .B714 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Schuyler.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible--Hermeneutics.
- Bible.
- Hermeneutics.
- Bible--Psychology.
- Psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 141 pages ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Text and psyche
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Continuum, 1998.
- Summary:
- While traditional doctrinal and historical interpretations rely heavily on rational analysis, the impact of scripture is mainly on the human heart. Examining this impact in the light of linguistic and literary theory, feminism, structuralism, Jungianism, deconstructionism, the analysis of archaic imagery and myth, the recovery of Gnostic texts, and finally an openness to pluralism, whether ethnic, geographic, religious, or interpretive, Schuyler Brown explores scripture today. He explains that texts are not simply storehouses of knowledge but rather "a vineyard" (Hugh of St. Victor) to be tilled for the reader's nurture and pleasure.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0826411118
- OCLC:
- 38989900
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