Why narrative? : readings in narrative theology /
edited by Stanley Hauerwas and L. Gregory Jones.
- Grand Rapids, MI : W.B. Eerdmans, c1989.
- viii, 367 p. ; hbk ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : Why narrative? / Stanley Hauerwas and L. Gregory Jones. Part 1 : Narrative rediscovered.
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 concepts of a tradition / Alasdair MacIntyre. Part 2 : Narrative as a critical tool.
Ideology, metaphor and analogy / Nicholas Nash -- 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. Part 3 : Narrative's theological significance.
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 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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