Paul Avis

God and the Creative Imagination

Metaphor, Symbol and Myth in Religion and Theology

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Produktbeschreibung

In God and the Creative Imagination, Paul Avis argues that metaphor, symbol and myth, are the key to a real knowledge of God and the sacred.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780415215039
• ISBN-10: 041521503X
• Artikelnr.: 21366088

Autorenporträt

Paul Avis

Inhaltsangabe

PART I 1 Speaking of God in the language of the imagination 2 The fate of
the imagination in modernity 3 The fate of the imagination in postmodernity
4 Affirming the truth of imagination: The alternative tradition PART II 5
The world of biblical imagination 6 Creative theology and the making of
doctrine 7 Imagination and the adventure of faith 8 Liturgy as literature
PART III 9 Metaphor 10 Symbol 11 Myth PART IV 12 Critical realism 13
Symbolic realism 14 Mythic realism