Writings and Revelation: Literary Theology in the Bible
Pursuant to recent revolutions in literary theory, in which the very possibility of meaning has been seen to be generated by the differential nature of the linguistic sign, 'revelation' can newly be understood as a poetic no less than a religious category. In some crucial respects, these t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2016]
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Literature and theology
Year: 2016, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 51-66 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture HA Bible NBB Doctrine of Revelation |
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| Summary: | Pursuant to recent revolutions in literary theory, in which the very possibility of meaning has been seen to be generated by the differential nature of the linguistic sign, 'revelation' can newly be understood as a poetic no less than a religious category. In some crucial respects, these two types of revelation might well be construed as overlapping or even as coinciding with one another. Rather than considering literary form to be extraneous to religious content and considering the linguistic medium to be purely instrumental to conveying a revelation of transcendent meaning, it has become imperative to apprehend the content of the form and to explore poetic form's own intrinsic capacities and propensities to deliver a revelation that might well be considered to be religious in the sense most pertinent for many types of readers of the Bible and particularly of Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs today. These, like the other Writings, call for specific elucidation in terms of their poetic resources and human artistic craft if they are to be understood as genres of revelation. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/fru057 |