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Chapter 2. Elisions of Abstract and Concrete, Epitomized in a “True-love”

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Chapter 1. The “Enigma” of Signification in “Figurative” Language 19
  5. Chapter 2. Elisions of Abstract and Concrete, Epitomized in a “True-love” 56
  6. Chapter 3. Agency: When Christ as “Doer” Is Also the “Love Deed” 85
  7. Chapter 4. Time in Narrative: The Teleology of History Meets the Timelessness of God “in plenitudo temporis” 124
  8. Chapter 5. “He is in the mydde point”: Poetic Deep Structure and the Frameworks of Incarnational Poetics 159
  9. Conclusion 209
  10. Notes 215
  11. Works Cited 283
  12. Index 301
  13. Acknowledgment 311
Poetics of the Incarnation
This chapter is in the book Poetics of the Incarnation
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812207477.56

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Chapter 1. The “Enigma” of Signification in “Figurative” Language 19
  5. Chapter 2. Elisions of Abstract and Concrete, Epitomized in a “True-love” 56
  6. Chapter 3. Agency: When Christ as “Doer” Is Also the “Love Deed” 85
  7. Chapter 4. Time in Narrative: The Teleology of History Meets the Timelessness of God “in plenitudo temporis” 124
  8. Chapter 5. “He is in the mydde point”: Poetic Deep Structure and the Frameworks of Incarnational Poetics 159
  9. Conclusion 209
  10. Notes 215
  11. Works Cited 283
  12. Index 301
  13. Acknowledgment 311
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