Books by David L. Miller

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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

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, and for Play

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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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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

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 and the Nick of Time

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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
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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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 Whimsy?

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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”