One: Tradition as Revelation
1: Narrative and Enlightenment: The Challenge of Postmodernism
2: The Hermeneutics of Pentecost and Crib
3: Continuing Revelation: Learning from Judaism and Islam
Two: The Moving Text
4: Heroic Transformations in the Classical World
5: Victim into Saint: Patriarchal Retellings
Three: Christ: Change and Imagination
6: Divine Accommodation
7: Art as Revelation
Conclusion: Post/modernism and Engagement
David Brown is Van Mildert Professor of Divinity in the University of Durham.
`Review from previous edition one of the most exciting books that I
have read recently ... Again and again a sentence or a paragraph
opens up new vistas and invites the reader to view the Christian
faith in fresh perspective, while the working out of the
overarching scheme is most impressive.'
The Expository Times
`we can be sure that this book and its sequel will play a hugely
significant role in the debates of the decades ahead.'
Theology
`This is a major achievement, the fruit of long and extraordinarily
varied study, written with Brown's characteristic clarity, opening
doors into all sorts of fresh insights.'
Theology
`Brown is excellent on how and why we need the different stresses
of the different Gospels, and resists the temptation to give the
moral high ground to one perspective only.'
Theology
`David Brown has not only brought Anglican theology to a whole new
level of achievement but also proposed a new role for imagination
in a way that will mark a turning point in Christian
esthetics.'
Theological Studies
`This is the most impressive theological book I have read in quite
a long time. It is packed with erudition along with careful
thinking ... Professor Brown has given us a first-class book that
is both illuminating in itself and that challenges the reader to
think further on matters that are central to Christian faith.'
John Macquarrie, Journal of Theological Studies
`Brown's scholarship is massive without ever becoming tedious, and
the range of subjects covered - art, philosophy, literature, and
the history and writings of three major world religions - is
awesome.'
Anthony Freeman, THES
`No one could read these two books [Tradition and Imagination and
Discipleship and Imagination] without being grateful to Brown for
his many rich insights and the challenge laid down by his refusal
to embrace exclusively any one approach.'
Anthony Freeman, THES
`This is a very significant book ... and it offers a creative and
liberating approach to revelation which could help in the
resolution of many of the doctrinal and ethical problems which
divide Christians now.'
Mervyn Willshaw, Methodist Recorder
`We can be sure that this book and its sequel will play a hugely
significant role in the debates of the decades ahead.'
Theology
`This is a major achievement, the fruit of long and extraordinarily
varied study, written with Brown's characteristic clarity, opening
doors into all sorts of fresh insights.'
Theology
`Quite magnificent.'
James Barr, previously Professor of Hebrew, Oxford University, now
Professor of the Hebrew Bible, Vanderbilt University
`Together they [the two volumes - of which this is the first]
constitute an achievement unmatched by any British theologian for a
long time. The range of erudition (biblical, historical,
philosophical; in art, poetry and fiction) is remarkable ... it is
likely to make a considerable impact in changing for the better the
way in which the nature of doctrinal theology is conceived.'
Maurice Wiles, Emeritus Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford
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