Incarnation: Contemporary Writers on the New Testament (1990 Corn), nonfiction edited volume

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Incarnation: Contemporary Writers on the New Testament (1990) is a nonfiction volume edited by Alfred Corn.

Abstract

"Twenty-three contemporary writers comment brilliantly on all the books of the New Testament and how it affected their lives and works."--Publisher description.

"This is an edited volume on the Incarnation by twenty-three award-winning novelists and poets from John Updike to Fredrick Buechner to Marilynne Robinson. The contributors are not trained specialist in history, biblical studies, or theology, per say, and some are not practicing Christians or theists, but each one takes a hand at reflecting on a particular book from the New Testament and considers how it might inform contemporary imaginative writing. Many contributors artfully interweave reflections on their assigned book from the New Testament with their personal experience with the church, or the Christian religion more broadly. Although it is not explicitly stated, the work ostensibly bears the title, Incarnation, because a tacit assumption of the editor pervades the entire book—the doctrine of the Incarnation permeates the entire corpus of the New Testament ... That being said, some of the contributors critically reflect upon the assumption that every book of the New Testament is imbued with contemporary theological doctrines. Dillard, for instance, challenges the view that Luke conceived of Jesus as divine, pre-existent, and co-substantial with the Father, and stresses instead, Luke's monotheism. Likewise, Price illumines the radical nature of John's statements about Jesus and stresses how unlikely it is that a sane non-Christian would assent to John's assertion that Jesus was God incarnate."--Deborah Forger, University of Michigan

Editions

Published in New York, NY: Viking, 1990.

Contents

  • The gospel according to Saint Matthew / John Updike
  • The gospel according to Saint Mark / Mary Gordon
  • The gospel according to Saint Luke / Annie Dillard
  • The gospel according to Saint John / Reynolds Price
  • The Acts of the apostles / Larry Woiwode
  • The epistle of Paul the apostle to the Romans / David Plante
  • The first epistle of Paul the apostle to the Corinthians
  • The second epistle of Paul the apostle to the Corinthians / Alfred Corn
  • The epistle of Paul the apostle to the Galatians / Anthony Hecht
  • The epistle of Paul the apostle to the Ephesians / Rita Dove
  • The epistle of Paul the apostle to the Philippians / Dana Gioia
  • The epistle of Paul the apostle to the Colossians / Gjertrud Schackenberg
  • The first and second epistles of Paul the apostle to the Thessalonians / Amy Clampitt
  • The first epistle of Paul the apostle to Timothy / Marina Warner
  • The second epistle of Paul the apostle to Timothy / Guy Davenport
  • The epistle of Paul to Titus / Josephine Humphreys
  • The epistle of Paul to Philemenon / Jonathan Galassi
  • The epistle of Paul the apostle tot he Hebrews / Robert B. Shaw
  • The general epistle of James / Michael Malone
  • The first and second epistles general of Peter / Marilynne Robinson
  • The first, second, and third epistles general of John / Robert Hass
  • The general epistle of Jude / Grace Schulman
  • The revelation of Saint John the divine / John Hersey

External links

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