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"The Eyes of Your Heart"

  • Paperback
  • 250 pages
  • Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
  • 15 x 22.7 x 1.6 cm

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For students of literature and biblical theology.

Shows how to bridge the gap between faith and story.

You will learn to imagine biblically in daily life.

Unlock a fresh theological approach to imagination by viewing literature through a biblical lens.

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This book develops a theory of imagining biblically that explores the contributions scripture can make to a new way of thinking about creativity, reading, interpretation, and criticism. The methodology employed in order to demonstrate this thesis consists of a theoretical exploration of current theological understandings of the "imagination" and their implications within the fields of literary studies. The biblical texts locates the function generally defined as "imagination" in the heart ("the eyes of your heart," Ephesians 1:18). This book assesses what the biblical text as a literary and religious document contributes to the concept of "imagination." Due to the eclectic nature of the individual books that comprise the scriptural canon, the text is considered primarily in terms of its overarching metanarrative, language, genres, and theological propositions. Tracing the various trajectories the biblical text opens up and the ways in which they intersect with and modify post-Romantic assumptions about the imagination reconfigures traditional definitions of this concept. A Calvinistic, evangelical hermeneutic is deployed to establish a theoretical concept of what it means to "imagine biblically." This is further substantiated by a comparative study of authors ranging from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries (John Bunyan, Samuel Rutherford, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and C. S. Lewis). Each author's chapter incorporates a close reading of a key text which concretely examines various trajectories of imagining biblically, including creativity, faith, morals, narrative, Romanticism, and eschatology. The conclusion returns to the biblical text and draws these elements together, with a definition of the concept of imagining biblically and its implications for literary studies.
"The Eyes of Your Heart" and Towards a Christian Literary Theory
Towards a Christian Literary Theory"The Eyes of Your Heart"

  • Title

    "The Eyes of Your Heart"

  • Authors

    Alison Searle +1

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Wipf & Stock Publishers

  • Published

    April 2009

  • Weight

    386g

  • Page Count

    250

  • Dimensions

    15 x 22.7 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9781606086025

  • ISBN-10

    1606086022

  • Eden Code

    4883175

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