A. J. Smith is Associate Pastor for Worship and Administration at Seven Springs Baptist Church, Calera, Alabama, and an Adjunct Professor of Church History for Liberty Theological Seminary's Distance Learning Program. He taught at Simmons College of Kentucky from 2004 to 2006 and has spoken before professional societies on Baptist history, systematic theology, and patristic theology. He has authored an article that appears in the new Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary.
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Drastic devices
2. Mirror of creation
3. Courtly conceits
4. Intelligible images
5. Arts of ingenuity
6. Metaphorical wit
7. Metaphysical wit
8. Sacred earth
Notes
Index.
