TY - BOOK AU - Hauerwas, Stanley, AU - Jones, L. Gregory TI - Why narrative? : : readings in narrative theology SN - 9781579100650 AV - BT83.78 .W59 [1997?] PY - 1997/// CY - Eugene, OR : PB - Wipf & Stock, KW - Storytelling KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity. KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Narration in the Bible N1 - 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 ER -