Tradition and Imagination Revelation and Change

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9780198269915
  • 25 november 1999
  • 402 pagina's
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Revelation is seen as a gift from God given only once. Challenging this idea, this book examines the effect cultural development has on religious belief, narrative, and art. Exploring the nature of the relationship between historical and imaginative truth, it argues that post-canonical traditions have functioned as enrichments of religious belief.



Tradition and revelation are often seen as opposites: tradition is viewed as being secondary and reactionary to revelation which is a one-off gift from God. Drawing on examples from Christian history, Judaism, Islam, and the classical world, this book challenges these definitions and presents a controversial examination of the effect history and cultural development has on religious belief: its narratives and art. David Brown pays close attention to the nature of the relationship between historical and imaginative truth, and focuses on the way stories from the Bible have not stood still but are subject to imaginative 'rewriting'. This rewriting is explained as a natural consequence of the interaction between religion and history: God speaks to humanity through the imagination, and human imagination is influenced by historical context. It is the imagination that ensures that religion continues to develop in new and challenging ways.

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25 november 1999
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402
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David Brown
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Oxford University Press

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28 mm
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223 mm
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152 mm
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32 mm
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612 g

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