Screen LibraryMiracles revisited : new testament miracle stories and their concepts of reality /
The book revisits New Testament and other miracle stories with regard to three dimensions: 1. It proposes to connect the interpretation of miracle stories to concepts of reality. 2. It emphasizes the political implications of miracle stories and their interpretations. 3. It demands to read miracle s...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Studies of the bible and its reception (sbr);
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| Summary: |
The book revisits New Testament and other miracle stories with regard to three dimensions: 1. It proposes to connect the interpretation of miracle stories to concepts of reality. 2. It emphasizes the political implications of miracle stories and their interpretations. 3. It demands to read miracle stories within its contexts.The book addresses how ancient concepts of reality, always complex, come to expression in stories of miraculous healings and their reception in medicine, art, literature, theology and philosophy, from classic antiquity to the Middle Ages. |
| Carrier Form: |
1 online resource(viii,414pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110296372（electronic bk.） |
| Index Number: | BS2545 |
| CLC: | B971.2 |
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface / "For nothing will be impossible with God" (Luke 1:37): The Reality of "The Feeding the Five Thousand" (Luke 9:10 17) in the Universe of Discourse of Luke s Gospel / Miracles of Judgment in Luke-Acts / Epiphany Reconsidered: A parallel reading of Acts 9:1 9 and Iliad 188 224a / Of Dogs and Women: Ethology and Gender in Ancient Healing. The Canaanite Woman s Story Matt 15:21 28 / Stories Just Under the Skin: lepra in the Gospel of Luke / Miracle and Natural Cause in Galen / The Physiology of Spirit in the Reformation: Medical Consensus and Protestant Theologians / Disability and the Terror of the Miracle Tradition / Miracle & Eschatology in Two African American Slave Narratives & the Spirituals: From Orality to Text / Cultural Translation: The Fig Tree and Politics of Representation under Nero in Rome (Mark 11:13 15, 19 20; Matthew 21:18 19; Luke 13:1 9) / Imperial Miracles and Elitist Discourses / The healing Christ in early Christian funeral art: The example of the frescoes at Domitilla catacomb/Rome / The Rhetoric of Violence and Healing in the Church of Prophites Elias in Thessaloniki / The Wondrous World of the Cinema: Types of Depictions of the Miraculous in Jesus Films / Miracles Revisited. A Short Theological and Historical Survey / New Testament Healing Narratives and the Category of Numinous Power / The Concept of Miracle and the Concepts of Reality. Some Provisional Remarks / Marvels, Miracles, Signs and the Real: Peirce s Semiotics in Religion and Art / |