Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

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Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
by Joseph Campbell

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Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword by Eugene Kennedy

Metaphor and Religious Mystery

• The Meaning of Myth
• What Myths Do
• Metaphor, the Native Tongue of Myth
• Metaphor and Mystery

The Experience of Religious Mystery

• Symbolism and Religious Experience
• Experiencing Mystery

Our Notions of God

• Elements of Our Experience of the Mystery of God
• Symbols: Out of Time and Place

The Religious Imagination and the Rules of Traditional Theology

• Imagination and Its Relation to Theological Inquiry

Symbols of the Judeo-Christian Tradition

• What Kinds of Gods Have We?
• Genesis
• Abraham, Father of the Jewish People

Understanding the Symbols of Judeo-Christian Spirituality

• The Virgin Birth
• The Cave
• The Infant
• Flight into Egypt
• The Child as Teacher
• The Messiah
• Miracles
• The Last Supper
• Judas
• Crucifixion
• The Cross
• The End of the World

Question Period

APPENDIX: A Discussion

• Introductory Note
• Earthrise---The Dawning of a New Spiritual Awareness

Chapter Notes

A Joseph Campbell Bibliography

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[This Table of Contents was originally posted to YouAreThat.org. I may have omitted some of the scholarly apparatus from this table of contents, such as Acknowledgements, the Index, etc.]

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