Faith and narrative
From epic to limerick, novel to anecdote, literary narratives engage and entertain us. From autobiography and biography to accounts of familial generations, narratives define communities. Myths and histories loom large in religious traditions as well. Recently, the importance of narrative to ethics and religion has become a pervasive theme in several scholarly disciplines. In the essays presented here, a distinguished roster of scholars addresses a range of issues associated with this theme, focussing especially on questions concerning narrative's contribution to knowledge
1 online resource (vii, 271 pages)
9781423757580, 9780195131451, 9781280472732, 9780195351286, 1423757580, 0195131452, 1280472731, 0195351282
64638585
"They stooped to conquer" : cultural vitality and the narrative impulse / Lamin Sanneh
Gnosis, narrative, and the occasion of repentance / David L. Jeffrey
The scandal of revelation / George Steiner
Second-person accounts and the problem of evil / Eleonore Stump
Social transformation as return of story tradition / James Billington
Anecdote as the essence of historical understanding / Robert E. Frykenberg
Hagiography and Hindu historical consciousness / John B. Carman
Narrative and theological aspects of Freudian and Jungian psychology / Paul Vitz
Words, deeds, and words about deeds / Jon N. Moline
Narrative theology from an evangelical perspective / Gabriel Fackre
Living within a text / Nicholas Wolterstorff
The limits of narrative theology / Paul Griffiths
Narrative ethics and normative objectivity / Keith E. Yandell
English
archive.org Free eBook from the Internet Archive
openlibrary.org Additional information and access via Open Library