02376cam a2200289 a 45000010008000000030009000080050017000170080041000340100017000750200017000920400024001090820015001332450105001482600047002533000034003005040041003345050075003755050312004505050491007625050641012536500024018946500051019186500026019696500028019957000035020237000028020584818850AU-EpEBC20120705090413.0890808s1989    miu      b    000 0 eng    a   89035972   a0802836682 :  aDLCcDLCdDLCdNEMB00a230.01/WHY00aWhy narrative? :breadings in narrative theology /cedited by Stanley Hauerwas and L. Gregory Jones.  aGrand Rapids, MI :bW.B. Eerdmans,cc1989.  aviii, 367 p. ;bhbk ;c24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references.  aIntroduction : Why narrative? / Stanley Hauerwas and L. Gregory Jones.  aPart 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.  aPart 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.  aPart 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. 0aNarrative theology. 0aStorytellingxreligious aspectsxChristianity. 0aNarration (Rhetoric). 0aNarrative in the Bible.1 aHauerwas, Stanley,d1940-eed.1 aJones, L. Gregory.eed.