People of the Book : Christian Identity and Literary Culture
Distinguished Professor of Literature and the Humanities and Guest Professor David Lyle Jeffrey
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
9780802841773
0-8028-4177-5
By what means can the original scriptural purpose of Word and Book be more accurately reflected in contemporary analysis? How might that purpose better inform discussion on all sides concerning the central.
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place of the Book in Christian identity and literary culture? Perhaps, Jeffrey suggests, by recognizing that for Christian "people of the Book, " at least, the proper function of the text, like the function of words themselves, is to be instrumental to human redemption, the redemption not only of personal meaning but of community meaning and, finally, of that communion with the Author that begins when the Word is taken to heart, ingested, incorporated, and made flesh in the actions of everyday life.
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