Taking three terms from the letters of Paul as a thematic guide, Kevin Mills investigates the respective roles of faith, hope and love in language and interpretation, and uses them to uncover and to question some of the key assumptions in deconstructive and postmodernist discourse. Its critical approach to interpretation theory (from Origen onwards), challenges the reader to reassess Pauline categories such as 'letter' and 'spirit', and to re-think the possibility of Christian engagement with contemporary literary theory.

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Book Title: Justifying Language
Book Subtitle: Paul and Contemporary Literary Theory
Authors: Kevin Mills
Series Title: Studies in Literature and Religion
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24283-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-24285-6Published: 01 January 1995
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-24283-2Published: 12 January 1996
Series ISSN: 2946-8744
Series E-ISSN: 2946-8752
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 207
Topics: Literary Theory, Christianity, Christian Theology

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Language, Faith, Understanding

Justification of Faith

Pressing On

The Letter of the Spirit

Love and Do as You Like

Conclusion

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