ISBN10: 1882670930, ISBN13: 9781882670932, [publisher: Spring Journal, New Orleans] Softcover 270 pages. Paperback in very good condition.
[Richmond, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]
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ISBN10: 1882670930, ISBN13: 9781882670932, [publisher: New Orleans: Spring Journal Books] Softcover 249 p. A very good copy. - Contents: Introduction: The Idea of a Polytheistic, Archetypal Theology -- PART I: CHRIST, THE GOOD SHEPHERD -- Perfectionism and the Imitatio Christi -- The Good Shepherd and His Sheep -- The Shepherd's Single Eye and Imitations -- The End of Perfection -- Jesus, the Model of Imperfection -- Christ the Lamb and Hermes the Ram -- Christ the Shepherd and the Monster Cyclops -- Shepherd and Clown -- PART II: CHRIST, THE CLOWN -- Clown and Christ -- The Image of the Clown and Smell's Drunk Sense -- A Red Nose on White: The Clown's Archetypal Face -- Nasal Fantasia 1: Psychology -- Nasal Fantasia 2: Literature -- The Smell of Traditional Religion and its Mythic Under-Odor -- Moistening: The Humor of Our Wits' End -- Warming: A Phenomenology of Straight and Round -- The Red and the White: A Clown's Nasal Alchemy -- PART III: CHRIST, THE GREAT TEACHER -- Fullness and Time -- Teaching/Preaching: An Inside/Outside Split -- Making Outer Inner: The Two as One -- From Socrates to Silenos: Remythologizing the Image of the Teacher -- Silenos and Christ: The True Vine as the Great Teacher -- Biblical and Theological Drunkenness: The Cases of Lot and Noah -- The Poetry of Drunkenness -- The Fire in Water: Rhythm's In-Between -- The Water of Fire: An Art of Forgetting -- The Arrow of Intoxication and the Nick of Time. ISBN ...
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