Figuring the sacred : religion, narrative, and imagination / Paul Ricœur ; translated by David Pellauer ; edited by Mark I. Wallace.

Author/creator Ricœur, Paul
Other author Wallace, Mark I., 1956-
Other author Pellauer, David.
Format Book
Publication InfoMinneapolis : Fortress Press, ©1995.
Descriptionviii, 340 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Uniform titleEssays. Selections. English
Contents pt. 1. The study of religion : problems and issues. Philosophy and religious language -- Manifestation and proclamation -- The "sacred" text and the community -- pt. 2. Philosophers of religion : mediation and conflict. A philosophical hermeneutics of religion : Kant -- The "figure" in Rosenzweig's The star of redemption -- Emmanuel Levinas : thinker of testimony -- pt. 3. The Bible and genre : the polyphony of biblical discourses. On the exegesis of Genesis 1:1-2:4a -- The Bible and the imagination -- Biblical time -- Interpretive narrative -- pt. 4. Theological overtures : God, self, narrative, and evil. Hope and the structure of philosophical systems -- Naming God -- Toward a narrative theology : its necessity, its resources, its difficulties -- Evil, a challenge to philosophy and theology -- The summoned subject in the school of the narratives of the prophetic vocation -- pt. 5. Practical theology : ethics and homiletics. The logic of Jesus, the logic of God -- "Whoever loses their life for my sake will find it" -- The memory of suffering -- Ethical and theological considerations of the Golden Rule -- Pastoral praxeology, hermeneutics, and identity -- Love and justice.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (page 331) and indexes.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 95005454
ISBN0800628942 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780800628949 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks BL51 .R43225 1995 ✔ Available Place Hold