Poetic Christ

Olivier-Thomas Venard is Deputy Director at École Biblique et Archéologique, Israel.Francesca Aran Murphy is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame, USA.Kenneth Oakes is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame, USA.

A Poetic Christ is a demanding book, but its demands are worth the effort … It is a book that not only commends,but also embodies, Venard’s calls for theology to be thought anew as ‘a reasoned history of thepoetics of faith practiced by a concrete community’.

• Author's AcknowledgmentsTranslators' AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsForeword - Cyril O’Regan, University of Notre Dame, USATranslators’ PrefaceI. Scripture1. A Poetic Gospel? 2. Towards a Poetic Christology II. Theology and Literature3. ‘I am not a writer’: Is There a Literary Vocation?4. ‘To Contemplate and to Hand On’: The Literary Drama of the Theologian’s Vocation5. The Idea and Poetics of the Summa theologiae 6. Language That Wanted to Make Itself as Strong as the Word 7. In Search of the Lost Word III. Language as a Theological Question 8. Little Thomasian Semiology 9. A Thomist Response: The Metaphysics of the Word10. The Existence of Language as a Theological Question IV. Word, Cross, Eucharist 11. The Cross of Jesus, the Summit of the Word of God 12. The Cross of Jesus, Source of Theological Speech 13. The Eucharist, the Exercise in Adoration - Glosses on 'Adoro Te'V. Conclusion 14. ‘The Hour Comes and Has Come…’ AppendixBibliographyIndex of Names