Books
by
David L. Miller
Interpretation: The
Poetry of Meaning
Edited with Stanley Romaine Hopper (Harcourt
Brace, 1967)
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Norman O. Brown, "Apocalypse: The Place
of Mystery in the Life of the Mind"
Heinrich Ott, "Hermeneutics and
Personhood"
Julian Marias, "Philosophic Truth and
the Metaphoric System"
Owen Barfield, "Imagination and
Inspiration"
Kenneth Burke, "A Theory of Terminology"
Beda Allemann, "Metaphor and
Antimetaphor"
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Gods
& Games: Toward a Theology of Play (World, 1970; Harper,
1973; Stillpoint Press [eBook], 2013)
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Introduction: The Care & Feeding of
Hobby Horses
Part I: Play's the Thing
1. The Contemporary
Fascination with Ideas about Play & Games
2. The Contemporary
Academic Game of Games
Part II: The Playground of Being
3. The Origin & History
of Ideas about Games & Play
4. The Origin & History
of the Spirit of Play in Man
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Part III: Play's
Mythology
5. Play is Religion
6. Religion is Play
Epilogue: Beyond the Rules of the
Religious Game toward a Theology of Play, by Play,
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The New Polytheism: Rebirth of the
Gods & Goddesses (Harper, 1974; Spring, 1981)
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I. An Explorded Cultural Sphere: The
Death of God & the Rebirth of the Gods
II. The Golden Ring and the Growing
Blackness: Monotheism, Polytheism, and
Theologizing
III. Sleeping Beauties: Theology as
Faith Seeking Understanding
IV. Stars, Sparks, and Luminous Fish
Eyes: Psychology as Understanding Seeking Life
V. The New Polytheism: Fifty-One Theses
and Some Notes
Postscript: The Laughter of the Gods
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French edition, Editions Imago, 1979
Italian edition, Edizioni di Comunita, 1983
Japanese edition, Japan UNI, 1981
Christs: Meditations on Archetypal Images in
Christian Theology (Seabury, 1981; Spring Journal Books,
2005)
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Introduction: The Idea of a
Polytheistic, Archetypal Theology
Part I: Christ, the Good Shepherd
1. Perfectionism and the
Imitatio Christi
2. The Good Shepherd and his
Sheep
3. The Shepherd's Single
Eye and Imitations
4. The End of Perfection
5. Jesus, the Model of
Imperfection
6. Christ the Lamb and
Hermes the Ram
7. Christ the Shepherd and
the Monster Cyclops
8. Shepherd and Clown
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Part II: Christ, the Clown
9. Clown and Christ
10. The Image of the Clown
and Smell's Drunk Sense
11. The Clown's Archetypal
Face
12. Nasal
Fantasia--Psychology
13. Nasal
Fantasia--Literature
14. The Smell of Traditional
Religion and its Mythical Under-odor
15. Moistening: The Humor of
Wit's End
16. Warming: A Phenomenology
of Straight and Round
17. The Red and the White: A
Clown's Nasal Alchemy
Part III. Christ, the Great Teacher
18. Fullness and Time
19. Teaching/Preaching: An
Inside/Outside Split
20. Making Outer Inner: The
Two as One
21. From Socrates to Silenos:
Remythologizing the Image of the Teacher
22. Silenos and Christ: The
True Vine as the Great Teacher
23. Biblical and Theological
Drunkenness: The Cases of Lot and Noah
24. The Poetry of Drunkenness
25. The Fire in the Water:
Rhythm's In-Between
26. The Water of Fire: An Art
of Forgetting
27. The Arrow of Intoxication
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Three Faces of God: Traces of the Trinity in
Literature & Life (Fortress, 1986; Spring Journal Books,
2005)
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Introduction: Theology as Remembering,
Contemplating, and Loving
Part I: Remembering the Trinity
1. Images and Fantasies
Hidden in Religious Traditions: Theological
Formulae of the Trinity
Interlude: Freud and Jung:
The Trinity in Modern Depth Psychology
2. Life-likeness and
Unlikeness: The Trinity in Everyday Life
Part II. Contemplating the Trinity
3. The Tragic Vision of the
Trinity: Trinitarian Contemplation in Ancient Myth
Interlude: Liminality,
Boundary and the Between: Philosophy and Letters
4. Angel Face and Body:
Trinitarian Contemplation in Neoplatonic, Gnostic
and Alchemical Theologies
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Part III: Loving by Triangulation
5. Tigers and Ghosts: The
Trinity in Modern Secular Literature
Interlude: Pinteresque Love:
Triangles in Postmodern Drama
6. The Body of God: God who
is a Trinity is Love which is Triangular
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Hells & Holy Ghosts: A Theopoetics of
Christian Belief (Abingdon, 1989; Spring Journal Books,
2004)
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Introduction: On Not Giving Up the Ghost
Part I: Descents
1. History is Hell
2. A Descent into History:
The Story of the Descent Motif
3. A Descent into
Imagination: Images of the Descent in the Ideas of
Theology
4. A Descent into the
Middle: Between Death and Resurrection
Part II: Hells
5. A Descent into Laughter:
The Abominable Fancy
6. A Descent into
Psychopathology: Archetypal Sadomasochism
7. A Descent into the Hells
of Modern Literature: The Dark Inference and
Negative Theology
8. History as Hell
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Part III: Holy Ghosts
9. The Death of Ghosts
10. Ghastly, Guest, Host: The
Ghosts in Language
11. The Ghost of Mrs. Leakey:
The Ghosts of History
12. The Grateful Dead: The
Ghosts of Folklore
Part IV: Resurrections of the Dead
13. The Paraclete: Ghosts of
Scripture
14. Proper Burial: Ghosts of
Depth Psychology
15. Our Dark Alphabet: Ghosts
of Modern Literature
16. Conclusion: Wimsey or
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Jung & the Interpretation of the Bible
(edited, Continuum, 1995)
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Wayne Rollins, "Psychology, Hermeneutics, and
the Bible"
D. Andrew Kille, "Jacob--A Study in
Individuation"
Trevor Watt, "Joseph's Dreams"
Michael Willett Newheart, "Johannine Symbolism"
Schuyler Brown, "The Myth of Sophia"
David L. Miller, "Biblical Imagery and
Psychological Likenesses"
