
Systematic Mythology
Imagining the Invisible
Jennifer Agee(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 12. October 2018
140 pages
978-1-5326-4818-2 (ISBN)
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Humans are composed of poetic tissues as surely as physical ones. Our identities, worldviews, longings--all are drawn and developed from the unique relationships and texts we encounter and incorporate. We collect and imagine stories and creatively build them into the tale of ourselves.
But each of these personal mythologies is irrevocably lost at death--unless it is true, as Christianity claims, that God raises the dead.
Systematic Mythology: Imagining the Invisible studies the ways in which we make meaning. It argues that God must be the ultimate subject of every person's essential myth, so that Christ may redeem and resurrect our stories as well as our bodies. Systematic mythology calls us to consciously and creatively participate in the story God is telling through our cosmos and its inhabitants: a story in which Christ is all, and in all.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
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978-1-5326-4818-2 (9781532648182)
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Jennifer Agee is a freelance editor. Her MA is from Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa. Systematic Mythology is her first book.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Seen and Unseen
- Prolegomena
- The Systematic Approach
- Chapter 2: What Is a Myth?
- A Modern Difficulty
- A Working Definition
- Chapter 3: Significance
- Ultimate Concern
- Anxiety and Art
- Heroes versus Mortals
- Live Wire
- Informed Substance
- Chapter 4: Imagination
- Poetry
- Giving Form to Thought
- The Invisible God
- Making Images
- Planning or Devising
- Chapter 5: Mythopoesis
- The Stories We Live By
- The Exegetical Imagination
- Sacred Texts
- Chapter 6: Systematic Mythology
- Caveats: Where Mythology Fails
- Myth versus Materialism
- Living Myth
- Enacted Exegesis
- The Author of All Our Story
- The Crucified God
- Practice
- Conclusion
- Afterword: A Blessing
- Appendix: And All the Tribes Fear Him
- A Text in a New Context
- The Sea Monster in Kwakwaka'wakw Tradition
- Chaos and Creation
- Cosmogony and Liturgy
- Conclusion: Creation, Context, and Connections
- Appendix: Iceland, January 2010: A Mythic Meditation
- Things I Saw in Iceland
- Appendix: Advent
- Appendix: Vigil
- Appendix: Picture Perfect
- Appendix: A Night at the Salt Kiln
- Bibliography
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