Moving Text

Garrick V. Allen is Lecturer in New Testament at Dublin City University, and research associate of the Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria (South Africa). Christopher R. Brewer is a Program Officer of the Templeton Religion Trust in Nassau, The BahamasDennis F. Kinlaw III is Assistant Professor of English and member of the Honors College at Houston Baptist University (USA).

David Brown has long taught us that to sense the ongoing dialogue between God and humanity, we need to become aware that God speaks not only through scripture but through tradition, imagination, and discipleship; and further that God communicates not only through the Church (or the synagogue) but also through people outside these orbits: artists and writers, secular and pagan. In this collection of essays, a wide variety of scholars take up Brown’s insights, fleshing them out through lucid interpretations of biblical texts, art, and literature. These rich discussions, along with a response and four sermons from Brown himself, render this collection essential reading for biblical and theological scholars as well as for people of faith seeking to hear God’s voices in unexpected places.

• Editor’s Introduction - Christopher R. BrewerPart 1: The Biblical Text1. Text and Tradition: David Brown and New Testament Textual Criticism - Garrick V. Allen 2. From the Magi to Pilate’s Wife: David Brown, Tradition and the Reception of Matthew’s Text - Ian Boxall 3. Memory, Remembrance and Imagination in the Formation of Redemptive Tradition: Reflecting on the Gospel of John with David Brown - Stephen C. Barton4. Moving Texts and Mirror Neurons: David Brown and Eleonore Stump on Biblical Interpretation - Robert MacSwainPart 2: The Visual Imagination5. Paradise Reclaimed: Kerry James Marshall and Chris Ofili in the Garden of Eden - Taylor Worley 6. Re-visions of Sacrifice: Abraham in Art and Interfaith Dialogue - Aaron Rosen 7. ‘Surely the Lord is in this Place’: Jacob’s Ladder in Painting, Contemporary Sculpture and Installation Art - Christopher R. Brewer8. Understanding John’s Visions: Unlocking the Insights of Revelation’s Visual History - Natasha O’Hear 9. The Stained Glass Biblia Pauperum Windows of Steinfeld Abbey: Monastic Spirituality, Salvation History and the Theological Imagination - William P. HylandPart 3: The Literary Imagination10. David Brown and the Virgin Mary: A Literary Perspective - Thomas Rist 11. Intertextuality, Tradition and Finding Theology in Unexpected Places: Reading Frankenstein with the Help of David Brown - Jon Greenaway 12. The Forms of Faith in Contemporary American Fiction - Dennis F. Kinlaw IIIThe Moving Text: A Reply - David BrownAppendix: The Moving Text in the Life of the ChurchIntroduction - Garrick V. Allen, Christopher R. Brewer and Dennis F. Kinlaw III The Ladder Between Heaven and Earth: John 1.43–51 234 - David Brown Rachel and Leah: Genesis 29.15–28 - David Brown Food offered to Idols and Idolatry in Word and Image: Revelation 2.12–17 - David Brown Emotion and the Tears of Peter: Mark 8.31–38 - David BrownBibliography