Tim Vivian

Other Voices, Other Rooms

Poems

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Why do we tell stories? Why are stories so indigenous to religion? Stories. Sacred stories. The three Western Scriptures express themselves most fully, and deeply, in stories. The original idea of story is inquiry, the result of research, information, knowledge, telling, exposition, account, history. Its verb makes verbal these nouns: to seek to know oneself, inform oneself, do research, inquire, interrogate, examine, explore, observe. All history is story. Most Scripture is story. Such stories, all stories, ask for--even demand--attentive listening, interpretation, and reinterpretation. Each of us, therefore, becomes an interpreter, speaking… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-72525-869-3
EAN: 9781725258693
Produktnummer: 34625783
Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 140 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'589 KB

Über den Autor

Tim Vivian is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at California State University Bakersfield and a retired Episcopal priest. He received three degrees in literature before an interdisciplinary PhD from UC Santa Barbara and an MDiv from Church Divinity School of the Pacific (Episcopal), and was a post-doctoral fellow at Yale Divinity School. In 2018 he received an honorary DD degree from Church Divinity School of the Pacific. He has published numerous books, articles, and book reviews on early Christian monasticism.