People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture

by David Lyle Jeffrey

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This astute and challenging work by David Lyle Jeffrey seeks to characterize illustratively the historic commitment of Christianity to the literacy and literature of Western culture.

Against postmodernist tendencies to divide the historical commitment to meaning in Western art and literature as a regressive "logocentrism," Jeffrey argues that the biblical tradition -- the cultural and literary identity forged among Western Christians by virtue...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0802841775

ISBN13:9780802841773

Release Date:August 1996

Publisher:William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Length:416 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Christian Books & Bibles Education & Reference History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Movements & Periods Reference Religion Religion & Spirituality

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