TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hauerwas,Stanley
AU  - Jones,L.Gregory
TI  - Why narrative?: readings in narrative theology 
SN  - 0802836682 :
U1  - 230.01/WHY 
PY  - 1989///
CY  - Grand Rapids, MI
PB  - W.B. Eerdmans
KW  - Narrative theology
KW  - Storytelling
KW  - religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric)
KW  - Narrative in the Bible
N1  - 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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