Author : Jeffrey F. Keuss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351741012
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis A Poetics of Jesus by : Jeffrey F. Keuss
Download or read book A Poetics of Jesus written by Jeffrey F. Keuss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002: A Poetics of Jesus explores the act of writing within and between the boundaries of 19th century biblical criticism and fiction. Reflecting on the work of Christian poetics after Augustine to Baur, Feuerbach, Friedrich Strauss and Victorian novelists of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, this book breaks new ground in juxtaposing the evoked image of Christ arising from Victorian biblical criticism against the image of Christ within fiction, letting both these images and the words that figured them interact. This book offers a highly accessible introduction to 19th century literature and theology through comparisons made to contemporary post-modern theorists. Demonstrating how literature can inform theology without itself becoming 'theology', this book constitutes an important contribution to the literature/theology debate and a much needed contribution to contemporary Christology through its introduction to the literature and the writers central to the beginnings of the historical quest for Jesus.