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The story of God : a biblical comedy about love (and hate)
\"Part Kurt Vonnegut, part Douglas Adams, but let's be honest, Matheson had me at 'Based on the Bible.'\" --Dana Gould, comedian and writer The Bible offers some clues to God's personality--he's alternately been called vindictive and just, bloodthirsty and caring, all-powerful and impotent, capricious and foresighted, and loving and hateful. But no one has ever fully explored why God might be such a figure of contrasts. Nor has anyone ever satisfactorily explained what guides his relationship not just with angels, the devil, and his son, but also with all of creation. Might he be completely misunderstood, a mystery even to himself? Might his behavior and actions toward humankind tell us much more about him than it does about us? Enter the mind of the creator of the universe, travel with him through the heavenly highs and hellish lows of his story, from Genesis to Revelation, to better understand his burdensome journey: being God isn't easy. After hearing his story--at times troubling and tragic but always hilarious in its absurdity and divine in its comedy--you'll never look at a miracle or catastrophe--or at our place in the universe, or God's--the same way again\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Human Tragedy, Divine Comedy
If BR is a \"Catholic tract\" as Edmund Wilson famously calls it (246), it is only to the extent that a correct reading of the novel can prepare one to read God's presence in one's own life. Since conversion is not simply the profession of a creed but a relationship with the person of Christ, no book or author can impose a conversion on another.
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Narrative Testimony in Kierkegaard and Rowling
Marit Trelstad introduces the volume Cross Examinations by noting mat feminist and womanist theologians, in particular, reject theories of atonement that validate patriarchal use (and abuse) of violence and its endorsement of these practices in western culture. [...] me point is not that substitutionary atonement must be a good story but mat good stories tell us what we expect from relationships.
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The Gods in the Greek Novel
How important are gods to the Greek novel? And how much do the novels encourage the view that the gods are active in human affairs? In this chapter I consider the frequency with which named, and also unspecified, gods are mentioned and how essential they are to the action of the novel. I shall conclude that in many cases it is not enough simply to view them in terms of literary convention and that literary convention itself depends on some acceptance within the world of the novel of beliefs that would be held in the real world.The range of narrative literature considered by specialists in the ancient novel has increased and diversified over the last twenty or so years. The more diverse the novel, the less that can be said in general about any single issue, ‘gods in the novel’ included. For this chapter, however, I revert to the so- called ‘ideal novel’, by which I mean the novels of Chariton, Xenophon, Achilles Tatius, Longus and Heliodorus. These form an unusually close-knit group of apparently very similar plots and often comparable tastes. It is unfashionable but not wholly irresponsible to speak of them as a genre. At the same time, they do themselves vary in character, and perhaps the divine is one area where they differ significantly. These are all imperial texts: the earliest, Chariton, must be mid to late first century AD, and the latest, Heliodorus, could be anywhere between the 220s and the 350s.
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