Touching the Heart: Tales for the Human Journey

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Twenty-Third Publications, 2007 - Performing Arts - 264 pages
No 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
Copyright

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About the author (2007)

William J. Bausch is a retired priest of the Diocese of Trenton, New Jersey

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