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Literature of Belief

Sacred Scripture and Religious Experience

Neal E. Lambert
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Table of Contents

  • Preface
    Neal E. Lambert and M. Gerald Bradford
  • Introduction
  • Biblical style and Western Literature
    Herbert N. Schneidau
  • Old Testament Types and Symbols
    Gerald N. Lund
  • Types of Christian Revelation
    Richard L. Anderson
  • Elements of Belief in the Qur’an
    Fazlur Rahman
  • The Hindu Experience: An Examination of Folklore and Sacred Texts
    Purushottam Lai
  • Masks of Oriental Gods: Symbolism of Kundalini Yoga
    Joseph Campbell
  • Influences of Taoist Classics on Chinese Philosophy
    Wing-tsit Chan
  • The Impact of the Nirvana Sutra in China
    Richard B. Mather
  • The First Vision: Re–Visioning Historical Experience
    Adele Brannon McCollum
  • On Confessing Belief: Thoughts on the Language of the Articles of Faith
    Steven P. Sondrup
  • The Dark Way to the Tree
    Typological Unity in the Book of Mormon
    Bruce W. Jorgensen
  • “All Things Which Have Been Given of God . . . Are the Typifying of Him”
    Typology in the Book of Mormon
    Richard Dilworth Rust
  • The Typology of the Exodus Pattern in the Book of Mormon
    George S. Tate

About the Book

At the foundation of great religions lie holy books. Not all religious books have the sacredness of scripture, but few religions survive and thrive without creating a literature of belief. This book contains proceedings from an RSC symposium on such books. Seldom has the dialogue between the language of scholarship and the language of faith been so intense or sensitive. These proceedings reflect both the devotion believers feel for their scriptures and a rare respect that should mark each encounter with another’s sacred literature.

ISBN 0-8849-4409-3

Published in 1981

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