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100 1 _aSong, Choan-Seng,
_d1929-
245 1 0 _aIn the beginning were stories, not texts
_h[electronic resource] :
_bstory theology /
_cC.S. Song.
260 _aCambridge :
_bJames Clarke,
_c2012.
300 _a1 online resource (vii, 172 pages)
336 _atext
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
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505 0 _aFrontcover; Titlepage; Contents; Preface; 1. In the Beginning Were Stories, Not Texts; Joseph's dreams ; Surrounding an evening fire; ""I love to tell the story"" ; In the beginning were stories; ""All I can do is to tell the story"" ; Life is the heart of story; There are no stories in hell; God loves stories; 2. Story Is the Matrix of Theology; Theology in stories; Take it and read; "Where is the water you are going to bring to me?"; Twelve Years or Half an Hour?; "Show me the magical power of Maya"; "My child, where is the water you were going to bring me?"; A man born blind.
505 8 _a"Rabbi, who sinned?""Neither this man nor his parents sinned"; "Lord, I believe"; 3. Theology rewrites Stories; ""The vain crow""; ""The rape of Nanking""; Theology of election; "Jacob I loved but Esau I hated"; The Potter and the Clay; The Prophet Jonah and the City of Nineveh; The Prophet Exiled in Babylon; 4. Stories rectify Theology; Jesus an uncommon Rabbi; A new teaching; The story of the man born blind; Scene One: "I am the man!"; Scene Two: "He is a prophet"; Scene Three: "He is of age; ask him"; Scene Four: "One thing I do know . . ."; Scene Five: Lord, I believe!
505 8 _aThose who love much are forgiven muchThe woman with a jar of costly ointment; Supper at the Pharisee's Home; "She has shown great love!"; 5. The Theological Power of Stories; Polarization of power ; The lament of a Japanese mother; Theological power of stories; Power of Empathy; Image-Making Power; The Power of Communion; Power in Suffering; The Power of Love; The Power of Transcendence; 6. In Search of our roots; What is the story?; Stories are human search for love; The Story of Spring Fragrance; Stories are human quests for hope; The Story of Two Suns; Stories are quests for faith.
505 8 _aThe Story of Barbar Deva7. Stories within a Story; The story of Abraham offering Isaac as a sacrifice; Story 1: God Tested Abraham?; Story 2: "Take your Son, your only Son . . ."; Story 3: "Stay here with the Donkey . . ."; Story 4: "Father, Where is the Lamb for a Burnt Offering?"; Story 5: What about Sarah, Mother of Isaac?; Story 6: Abraham Tested God; The story of Jesus' passion; Story 1: "If these were silent, the stones would cry out" (Luke 19:40); Story 2: "Look, the world has gone after him!" (John 12:19); Story 3: Thirty Pieces of Sliver (Matt 26:14-16).
505 8 _aStory 4: "Is it I, Lord?" (Mark 14:19)Story 5: "Have nothing to do with that innocent man" (Matt 27:19); Story 6: "Daughter of Jerusalem, do not weep for me"; Story 7: "Not what I want, but what you want" (Mark 14:36); 8. Stories Are Culturally Distinctive; Stories are culturally distinctive; The Kannon Who Substituted; The Keys of Destiny; The ugly duckling; 9. Stories Can Be Theologically Interactive; Suffering and faith; Alicia's Story; Sin and death; Death in the Garden; "Have You Eaten from the Tree?"; Transformation; "Take, this is my body"; "We Have Drunk Soma, Have Become Immortal."
520 _aStories are the most basic mode of human communication. Writers, painters, sculptors, artists, and indeed, people of all walks of life live by the telling of their stories. Christianity itself is deeply rooted in storytelling - the vast majority of the Hebrew Scriptures, for example, consist of stories, and Jesus proclaimed and taught about the Reign of God through stories and parables. At the heart of the Christian faith are stories, not concepts, propositions, or ideas. In the Beginning Were Stories, Not Texts laments the fact that Christian theology is all too often expressed in terms of abs.
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