Figuring the Sacred

Preface Introduction -Part One- THE STUDY OF RELIGION: PROBLEMS AND ISSUES 1. Philosophy and Religious Language 2. Manifestation and Proclamation 3. The "Sacred" Text and the Community -Part Two- PHILOSOPHERS OF RELIGION: MEDIATION AND CONFLICT 4. A Philosophical Hermeneutics of Religion: Kant 5. The "Figure: in Rosenzweig's The Star of Redemption 6. Emmanuel Levinas: Thinker of Testimony -Part Three- THE BIBLE AND GENRE: THE POLYPHONY OF BIBLICAL DISCOURSES 7. On the Exegesis of Genesis 8. The Bible and the Imagination 9. Biblical Time 10. Interpretive Narrative -Part Four- THEOLOGICAL OVERTURES: GOD, SELF, NARRATIVE, AND EVIL 11. Hope and the Structure of Philosophical Systems 12. Naming God 13. Toward a narrative Theology: Its Necessity, Its Resources, Its Difficulties 14. Evil, a Challenge to Philosophy and Theology 15. The Summoned Subject in the School of the Narratives of the Prophetic Vocation -Part Five- PRACTICAL THEOLOGY: ETHICS AND HOMILETICS 16. The Logic of Jesus, the Logic of God 17. "Whoever Loses Their Life for My Sake Will Find It" 18. The Memory of Suffering 19. Ethical and Theological Considerations on the Golden Rule 20. Pastoral Praxeology, Hermeneutics, and Identity 21. Love and Justice Bibliographical Note Index of Biblical Passages Index of Names Index of Subjects