Michael Willett Newheart, PhD, is associate professor of New Testament language and literature at the Howard University School of Divinity. He is the author of Word and Soul, published by Liturgical Press.

. . . competent, suggestive and interesting.Irish Theological Quarterly

• ContentsPreface   xiAcknowledgments   xvIntroduction: Reading the Story, Probing the Soul   xviiPart IReading the Gerasene’s Story: Narrative Criticism   1CHAPTER ONETell Me the Old, Old Story: The Gospels as Narratives   3CHAPTER TWOMark My Word: The Story of the Crucified Son of God   18CHAPTER THREERecovering from “Legionnaire’s Disease”: The Story of the Gerasene’s Exorcism   34Part IIProbing the Gerasene’s Soul: Psychological Biblical Criticism   51CHAPTER FOURLegion’s Unconscious Uncovered: Freud and Jung   53CHAPTER FIVELegion Scapegoated and (De)Colonized: Girard and Fanon   70CHAPTER SIXReading Legion’s Story with (New)Heart and Soul   86Conclusion: Telling the Story, Enriching the Soul   105Bibliography   111Appendix: Poems on the Gerasene   117Scripture Index   123

Michael Willett Newheart, PhD, is associate professor of New Testament language and literature at the Howard University School of Divinity. He is the author of Word and Soul, published by Liturgical Press.

. . . competent, suggestive and interesting.Irish Theological Quarterly

• ContentsPreface   xiAcknowledgments   xvIntroduction: Reading the Story, Probing the Soul   xviiPart IReading the Gerasene’s Story: Narrative Criticism   1CHAPTER ONETell Me the Old, Old Story: The Gospels as Narratives   3CHAPTER TWOMark My Word: The Story of the Crucified Son of God   18CHAPTER THREERecovering from “Legionnaire’s Disease”: The Story of the Gerasene’s Exorcism   34Part IIProbing the Gerasene’s Soul: Psychological Biblical Criticism   51CHAPTER FOURLegion’s Unconscious Uncovered: Freud and Jung   53CHAPTER FIVELegion Scapegoated and (De)Colonized: Girard and Fanon   70CHAPTER SIXReading Legion’s Story with (New)Heart and Soul   86Conclusion: Telling the Story, Enriching the Soul   105Bibliography   111Appendix: Poems on the Gerasene   117Scripture Index   123

Michael Willett Newheart, PhD, is associate professor of New Testament language and literature at the Howard University School of Divinity. He is the author of Word and Soul, published by Liturgical Press.

. . . competent, suggestive and interesting.Irish Theological Quarterly

• ContentsPreface   xiAcknowledgments   xvIntroduction: Reading the Story, Probing the Soul   xviiPart IReading the Gerasene’s Story: Narrative Criticism   1CHAPTER ONETell Me the Old, Old Story: The Gospels as Narratives   3CHAPTER TWOMark My Word: The Story of the Crucified Son of God   18CHAPTER THREERecovering from “Legionnaire’s Disease”: The Story of the Gerasene’s Exorcism   34Part IIProbing the Gerasene’s Soul: Psychological Biblical Criticism   51CHAPTER FOURLegion’s Unconscious Uncovered: Freud and Jung   53CHAPTER FIVELegion Scapegoated and (De)Colonized: Girard and Fanon   70CHAPTER SIXReading Legion’s Story with (New)Heart and Soul   86Conclusion: Telling the Story, Enriching the Soul   105Bibliography   111Appendix: Poems on the Gerasene   117Scripture Index   123