People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture

by David Lyle Jeffrey

Book Overview

This astute and challenging work by David Lyle Jeffrey seeks to characterize illustratively the historic commitment of Christianity to the literacy and literature of Western culture.

Against postmodernist tendencies to divide the historical commitment to meaning in Western art and literature as a regressive "logocentrism," Jeffrey argues that the biblical tradition -- the cultural and literary identity forged among Western Christians by virtue...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802841775
• ISBN13: 9780802841773
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"