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How to determine the meaning of a sacred text : cases and methodologies
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How to determine the meaning of a sacred text : cases and methodologies / Jay G. Williams ; foreword by Stephenson Humphries-Brooks.
ISBN
9780773415683
0773415688
Published
Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2011.
Physical Description
x, 361 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 11, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Exegesis/Eisegesis : is there a difference?
Aristotle's Inanna : a peripatetic view of myth
Mythic transformation
Scripture as Kung An
Adam, enlightened or fallen?
The wisdom of the serpent
Symphony #1 : the genesis
The structure of Judges 2:6-16:31
The Sheng Ren and the Navi
Return to the roots : Platonic philosophy and the Yi Jing
On reading a Confucian classic : the rhetoric of the Lun Yu
Epimenides, self-referentiality and the Lotus Sutra
The Vimalakirtinirdesasutra : the comedy of paradox
Absolute skepticism : Lao Zi and Krishnamurti
Jesus, the lord of Pisces : Hipparcus and the Gospels
What is wrong with the church?
Mark, the gospel of radical transformation
The Gospel according to John (or is it Ch'an?)
The spiritual in poetry
Poems as interpretation
Spiritual imagination.
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