Discipleship and Imagination - Christian Tradition and Truth

Zusatztext Brown has undertaken a Herculean task in both Tradition and Imagination and Discipleship and Imagination and rendered wonderful results. His encouragement of the Church to engage fully in ever-developing imaginative traditions is a worthy call and one to be applauded. These volumes are highly recommended Informationen zum Autor Author's website - http://sites.google.com/site/theomegagambit Klappentext In this book! David Brown considers the ways in which biblical narratives have been presented--and changed--over the centuries. He then determines how these changes have impacted the understanding and practice of Christian discipleship. Zusammenfassung Are fictional elaborations of the lives of biblical figures or of the saints of any relevance to our own day? David Brown argues not only that they are, but also that it was only through such imaginative developments that Christianity ensured the continuing relevance of the gospel in changing social conditions. Inhaltsverzeichnis One: Appropriating Christ for the Present 1: Valuing and Prostituting Women: Equality and Mary Magdalene 2: Pattern and Particular: Saint and Novel 3: Heaven and the Defeat of the Beast: Social Aspects of Discipleship Two: The Impact of Changing Experience 4: Job and Innocent Suffering 5: Mary and Virgin Promise Three: Truth and Authority 6: Apostolicity and Conflict: Peter and Paul 7: Posing Pilate's Question: Truth and Fiction

Product details

• Authors: D. Brown, David Brown, David (Van Mildert Professor of Divinity Brown, David O. Brown
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.08.2004
• EAN: 9780199275908
• ISBN: 978-0-19-927590-8
• No. of pages: 448
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Christian life & practice, Christian life and practice, RELIGION / Christian Living / General