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A Poetics of Jesus

The Search for Christ Through Writing in the Nineteenth Century

Jeffrey F Keuss author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:21st Dec '17

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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.

'This book constitutes a real contribution to the whole project of literature and theology. It shows how literature can inform theology, without itself becoming 'theology'. David Jasper, University of Glasgow, UK 'How theology and fiction each announce the good news of the Gospel is a fascinating question, and Keuss is to be commended for taking it on.' Christianity and Literature

ISBN: 9781138733329

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

226 pages