Touching the Heart: Tales for the Human JourneyNo one can write about storytelling like Father Bill Bausch. Both his words and his stories are compelling, convincing, and completely absorbing. Here in this landmark work, which he insists is his last, his goal is to help readers see the centrality of stories, to read and hear Scripture as story and not as history, and to learn to enrich and expand their lives by looking at the ?story behind the story.? He wants to break readers out of the literalism that constricts their spiritual and social lives, so they might gain an appreciation of metaphor and symbol and the ?sacramentality? of the world. |
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Contents
Chapter One The Seven Basic Plots | 9 |
Chapter Two Tellers Types and Techniques | 35 |
Chapter Three The Healing Power of Stories | 59 |
of Children | 93 |
Chapter Five Stories for | 122 |
Chapter Six Stories for | 157 |
Chapter Seven Nursery Rhymes | 191 |
Chapter Eight Stories That Challenge | 197 |
Chapter Nine The Tale of Two Stories | 232 |
Credits and Notes | 250 |
Bibliography | 260 |
Common terms and phrases
Ananias asked Baal Shem Tov baby beautiful began birds Bishop Bruce Springsteen C.S. Lewis called Catholic chapter child Christopher cried culture dachshund dark death Devil doctor door Dorothy Day Dorothy Gale elders Enkidu Epic of Gilgamesh eyes fairy fairy tales father fire G.K. Chesterton Genesius Gilgamesh girl Grandmamere Gregory hair hand happened head healing hear heard heart hero holy human images imagination Jesus journey kids king knew listen live looked Maum Jean metaphors monk moral mother Mungo myth never night old woman once Opossum parents Pierre Pinocchio poor pretty lady Queen rabbi Saint Santoro servant spiritual story storyteller symbols talk tell things Thomas Merton thought tin box told took tree truth turned Velveteen Rabbit voice walked wife Wizard of Oz wonderful woodcutter words young youth