The goal of an etic analysis should be to stand on the threshold of the emic dimension, trying to peek through the door what is inside. The present panel aims to explore the threshold condition of different and complementary etic epistemologies – biblical narrative, theology, and literature – facing the emic mystery of Jewish-Christian Revelation. In the First Revelation the believer must stand on the threshold: after Adam’s sin he cannot see God’s face and not die (Exod. 33,20); in the Second Revelation the Father shows himself in the Son’s face and man is now called to cross multiple thresholds. Aquinas’ Summa Contra Gentiles is a privileged place to grasp the border between rational thought and Revelation, captured in the debate over eternity of the world and creation through the use of non-Christian philosophers. A similar approach has been rediscovered in contemporary theology by G. Lindbeck. According to him, Scripture is the depository of an intratextual truth that shapes a faith community’s experience. Focusing on the relationship between textuality and experience, G. Steiner’s literary criticism undergoes a Christianizing – though clearly not Christological – turn, by which he enacts a metapoetics of the threshold as a place where meaning and presence happen. A final dwelling on the magazine «Il Frontespizio» will unearth its major role, in 1930s Italy, as bachtinian chronotope and metaphorical threshold to a (un)closed universe of literary questionings on religion.Chair: Pierangelo Bianco (Libera Università Maria Santissima Assunta (LUMSA)) Speakers:Salvatore Rindone (Pontificio Ateneo S. Anselmo), The meaning of the “threshold” in a narrative interpretation of the Christian RevelationVincenzo Serpe (Università di Salerno), The threshold between human rational research and the Revelation in Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Contra GentilesPierangelo Bianco (Libera Università Maria Santissima Assunta (LUMSA)), The biblical language as an “intratextual” threshold between truth and communal belief in George Lindbeck’s Postliberal TheologyCristophe Herzog (Libera Università Maria Santissima Assunta (LUMSA)), Between Judaism and Christianity: George Steiner’s literary Criticism as a Poetics of the ThresholdLucia Battistel (Libera Università Maria Santissima Assunta (LUMSA)), «Il Frontespizio» (Florence, 1929-1940): an (un)closed scriptorium of questionings on literature and religion