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