How to Determine the Meaning of a Sacred Text. Cases and Methodologies
Author: | Williams, Jay |
Year: | 2011 |
Pages: | 380 |
ISBN: | 0-7734-1568-8 978-0-7734-1568-3 |
Price: | $239.95 + shipping |
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This work applies many different approaches to the analysis of sacred texts. The articles contained in this collection are influenced by structuralism, phenomenology, the study of self-referentiality and Zen. In many cases, Eastern thought is applied to Western texts, and vice versa.
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“…this collection serves as a personal intellectual memoir allowing us to see a particular case of the history of the study of religion at the end of and beginning of significant centuries.”-Prof. Stephenson Humphries-Brooks, Hamilton College
Table of Contents
Dedication
Foreword by Stephenson Humphries-Brooks
Preface
Acknowledgements and permissions
Table of Contents
Introduction
"Exegesis/Eisegesis: Is There a Difference?"
Part I
"Aristotle's Inanna: A Peripatetic View
of Myth"
"Mythic Transformation"
Part II
"Scripture as Kung An"
"Adam: Enlightened or Fallen?"
"The Wisdom of the Serpent"
"Symphony # 1: The Genesis"
Part III
"The Structure of Judges 2:6-16:11"
"The Navi and the Sheng Ren"
Part IV
"Return to the Roots: Platonic Philosophy and
The IChing"
"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"
Part V
"Jesus, the Lord of Pisces: Hipparchus
and the Gospels"
"What's Wrong with the Church?
"Mark, The Gospel of Radical
Transformation"
"The Gospel of John (or is it Ch'an?)"
Part VI
"Spirituality and Poetry"
"Poems as Interpretation"
Epilogue
"Spiritual Imagination"
Works Cited
Indices
Names
Topics
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