^{page 447 note 1} The two important essays by Clifford Geertz are ‘Religion as a Cultural System’ and ‘Ethos, World View, and the Analysis of Sacred Symbols’. They constitute Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 in his The Interpretation of Cultures (New York: Basic Books, 1973).

^{page 451 note 1} Beardslee, William A., Literary Criticism of the New Testament (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1976), pp. 4–5.Google Scholar

^{page 451 note 2} Gunn, Giles B., ‘Introduction: Literature and Its Relation to Religion’, Literature and Religion, ed. Gunn, Giles B. (New York: Harper & Row, 1971), pp. 1–33.Google Scholar

^{page 451 note 3} For an excellent discussion of these matters see especially the ‘Preface’ by Amos N. Wilder in Jesus' Parables and the War of Myths, ed. Breech, James (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1982), pp. 15–38.Google Scholar

^{page 453 note 1} Barbour, Ian G., Myths, Models, and Paradigms (New York: Harper & Row, 1970), p. 44.Google Scholar

^{page 453 note 2} Wilder, Amos N., New Testament Faith for Today (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955), p. 60.Google Scholar

^{page 453 note 3} Ibid. p. 61.

^{page 454 note 1} Ogden, Schubert M., The Reality of God (New York: Harper & Row, 1966), pp. 117–18.Google Scholar

^{page 454 note 2} Wilder, Amos N., Early Christian Rhetoric (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971), p. 120.Google Scholar See also his Theopoetic (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1976), p. 24

^{page 454 note 3} Wilder, , Theopoetic, p. 75.Google Scholar

^{page 454 note 4} Ibid. p. 80.

^{page 455 note 1} Barr, James, The Scope and Authority of the Bible (Philadelphia: The Westminister Press, 1980), p. 126.Google Scholar

^{page 455 note 2} See my article, ‘Story and Theory in Christian Theology: Two Levels of Language and Logic’, Encounter, XLIII, 3 (Summer 1980), 205–18.

^{page 455 note 3} Wilder, , Theopoetic, p. 74.Google Scholar

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^{page 457 note l} See my articles,‘Philosophic Logic and Theology’, The Miff Review, XXXVI, I ( 1979), 11–23 and ‘The Christian Story of Creation and Redemption: Heilsgeschichte Reconsidered’, Cithara, XXI, I (11 1981), 43–57.

^{page 457 note 2} This is one of the main arguments of Ian G. Barbour in Myths, Models, and Paradigms.