TY - BOOK AU - Hart,Trevor TI - Between the image and the word: theological engagements with imagination, language, and literature T2 - Ashgate Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts SN - 9781472413697 (alk. paper) PY - 2013/// CY - Farnham PB - Ashgate Publishing Ltd KW - Incarnation KW - Imagination KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Language and languages KW - Theology in literature N1 - Includes index; Cover; Contents; Provenance of Chapters; Introduction; 1 Between the Image and the Word; 2 The Promise and the Sign; 3 The Economy of the Flesh; 4 The Grammar of Conversation; 5 Cosmos, Kenosis and Creativity; 6 Unauthorised Texts; 7 Unseemly Representations; 8 Unfinished Performances; 9 Unexpected Endings; 10 The Substance of Things Hoped For; Index N2 - The central contention of Christian faith is that in the incarnation the eternal Word or Logos of God himself has taken flesh, so becoming for us the image of the invisible God. Our humanity itself is lived out in a constant toing and froing between materiality and immateriality.Approaching different aspects of two distinct movements between the image and the word, in the incarnation and in the dynamics of human existence itself, Trevor Hart presents a clearer understanding of each and explores the juxtapositions with the other UR - http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=1336217 ER -