Gospel as Work of Art: Imaginative Truth and the Open Text (Hardcover)

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Poems and Biblical Passages
Preface 
Introduction 
Part 1: Foundations 
          1. Religious Control and the Spiritual Imagination 
          2. Meaning and an Open Text 
          3. Imaginative Truth in Theory and in Art 
          4. Truth in a Changing Narrative 
Part 2: Resources Then and Now  
          5. Through Prayer and People 
          6. Mystical and Natural 
          7. Responding to Inherited Traditions  
Part 3: Significance  
          8. Why a Gospel at All? 
          9. Layers of Revelation  
          10. Miracle as Symbol and Sign  
          11. Variety in Parable and Teaching 
          12. Death and the Exhaustion of Metaphor 
          13. The Resurrected Lord and the Spirit 
          14. The Openness of Faith 
List of Credits
Indexes