A Poetic Christ : Thomist Reflections on Scripture, Language and Reality (Paperback)

Author's Acknowledgments Translators' Acknowledgments Abbreviations Foreword - Cyril O'Regan, University of Notre Dame, USA Translators' Preface I. Scripture 1. A Poetic Gospel? 2. Towards a Poetic Christology II. Theology and Literature 3. 'I am not a writer': Is There a Literary Vocation? 4. 'To Contemplate and to Hand On': The Literary Drama of the Theologian's Vocation 5. The Idea and Poetics of the Summa theologiae 6. Language That Wanted to Make Itself as Strong as the Word 7. In Search of the Lost Word III. Language as a Theological Question 8. Little Thomasian Semiology 9. A Thomist Response: The Metaphysics of the Word 10. The Existence of Language as a Theological Question IV. Word, Cross, Eucharist 11. The Cross of Jesus, the Summit of the Word of God 12. The Cross of Jesus, Source of Theological Speech 13. The Eucharist, the Exercise in Adoration - Glosses on 'Adoro Te' V. Conclusion 14. 'The Hour Comes and Has Come.' Appendix Bibliography Index of Names