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Article: The Owl, the Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales. (Book Reviews).
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- Christianity and Literature
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- September 22, 2001
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The Owl, the Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales. By G. Ronald Murphy, S.J. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-19-513607-1. Pp. xi + 189. $25.00.
The difference between sacred storytelling and narrative theology is that the former begins with the obvious, much like Gestalt therapy, while the latter prefers the obscure, in much the same fashion as Jungian analysis. The obvious in this book is the title, and there is no better starting point for discussion than this bevy of birds. G. Ronald Murphy's argument is that Wilhelm, the storyteller among the Grimm brothers, had a mythopoeic vision encompassing the total ...