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Why narrative? : readings in narrative theology / edited by Stanley Hauerwas and L. Gregory Jones.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Eugene, OR : Wipf & Stock, 1997.Description: viii, 367 p. : 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781579100650
  • 1579100651
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BT83.78  .W59 [1997?]
Contents:
Introduction, why narrative? / Stanley Hauerwas and L. Gregory Jones -- The story of our life / H. Richard Niebuhr -- Apologetics, criticism, and the loss of narrative interpretation / Hans Frei -- The narrative quality of experience / Stephen Crites -- The virtues, the unity of a human life, and the concept of tradition / Alasdair MacIntyre -- Ideology, metaphor, and analogy / Nicholas Lash -- Epistemological crises, dramatic narrative, and the philosophy of science / Alasdair MacIntyre -- From system to story: an alternative pattern for rationality in ethics / Stanley Hauerwas and David Burrell -- System, story, performance: a proposal about the role of narrative in Christian systematic theology / David F. Ford -- Narrative emotions: Beckett's genealogy of love / Martha Nussbaum -- A short apology of narrative / Johann Baptist Metz -- The narrative structure of soteriology / Michael Root -- Theological investments in story: some comments on recent developments and some proposals / Julian Hartt -- A respectful reply to the assertorical theologian / Stephen Crites -- Why the truth demands truthfulness: an imperious engagement with Hartt / Stanley Hauerwas -- Reply to Crites and Hauerwas / Julian Hartt -- The promising God: the gospel as narrated promise / Ronald Thiemann -- God, action, and narrative: which narrative?, which action?, which God? / Michael Goldberg.
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Originally published Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction, why narrative? / Stanley Hauerwas and L. Gregory Jones --
The story of our life / H. Richard Niebuhr --
Apologetics, criticism, and the loss of narrative interpretation / Hans Frei --
The narrative quality of experience / Stephen Crites --
The virtues, the unity of a human life, and the concept of tradition / Alasdair MacIntyre --
Ideology, metaphor, and analogy / Nicholas Lash --
Epistemological crises, dramatic narrative, and the philosophy of science / Alasdair MacIntyre --
From system to story: an alternative pattern for rationality in ethics / Stanley Hauerwas and David Burrell --
System, story, performance: a proposal about the role of narrative in Christian systematic theology / David F. Ford --
Narrative emotions: Beckett's genealogy of love / Martha Nussbaum --
A short apology of narrative / Johann Baptist Metz --
The narrative structure of soteriology / Michael Root --
Theological investments in story: some comments on recent developments and some proposals / Julian Hartt --
A respectful reply to the assertorical theologian / Stephen Crites --
Why the truth demands truthfulness: an imperious engagement with Hartt / Stanley Hauerwas --
Reply to Crites and Hauerwas / Julian Hartt --
The promising God: the gospel as narrated promise / Ronald Thiemann --
God, action, and narrative: which narrative?, which action?, which God? / Michael Goldberg.