281 results on '"*NARRATIVE theology"'
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2. Postliberal Theology
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Ronald T. Michener
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postliberal theology ,intratextuality ,generous orthodoxy ,narrative theology ,postmodern theology ,postfoundationalism ,Doctrinal Theology ,BT10-1480 - Abstract
Postliberal theology is an overarching, but not monolithic, narrative-focused theological sensibility that moves beyond the conservative/liberal divide. Not to be confused with political ‘postliberalism’ – a response to liberal, market-driven economics – postliberal theology is a distinctive theological sensibility. It affirms tradition, experience, and propositions when doing theology, and emphasizes context and community more than historical-critical, empirical, or rationalistic epistemological theological concerns. This article will provide an overview of postliberal theology by focusing on its background (including its identification with the ‘Yale School’), key figures, major themes, concerns, tendencies, and theological agendas. It will begin by addressing key themes found in postliberal theology that include its non-foundational and non-apologetic character, intratextuality, community-shaped grammar, ecumenical openness, and its focus on the narrative of God’s people in scripture in the story of Israel and the Christian faith community. It will then provide a brief profile of key philosophical and sociological scholars who are influencers of postliberal sensibilities in theology. These include Ludwig Wittgenstein, Thomas Kuhn, Michael Polanyi, Alasdair MacIntyre, Clifford Geertz, Peter Berger, and Thomas Luckmann. This will be followed by considering several key theologians who are proponents of postliberal theology, including Karl Barth, Hans Frei, Paul Holmer, David Kelsey, George Lindbeck, and Stanley Hauerwas, among others. The article will then consider some critical engagements and appropriations of postliberal theology as seen in the work of Kevin J. Vanhoozer, James K. A. Smith, John Milbank, and David Burrell. In conclusion, consideration will be given to implications and potential applications of postliberal theology for the contemporary Christian church.
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- 2024
3. El camino del amor.
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PINELLI, ANTHONY-JOSEPH
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NARRATIVE theology , *UNIVERSAL priesthood , *SALVATION in Christianity , *AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Abstract
When undertaking the writing of Manuscript A, in obedience to Mother Agnes of Jesus --her sister Pauline-- Thèrése of the Child Jesus of the Holy Face will endeavor to tell the story of the path of love in her life, though it is not so much --or principally-- the path of love which she has travelled, but the path that love has travelled in her. Perhaps it was not her initial intention, but the grace received on the Solemnity of the Holy Trinity in 1895 --that is, the certainty of how much Jesus desires to be loved-- reorients her work as a writer in a liturgical as well as a historical context, in which the offering of oneself to divine justice is prevalent. At that moment, Thérèse decides to offer herself to love so as to "please Jesus", in response to the mercy that he has poured out by being present in every moment of her life. Her autobiography, in the light of her lived experience and the Offering to Merciful Love which she made, transmits to the reader three essential dimensions of the path that love has taken in the life of Thérèse of Lisieux: the priestly dimension, the subversive dimension and the narrative dimension. She will culminate her journey by embracing in the night the Paschal Mystery, which is the gift of salvation and life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
4. Stories theology lives by : a narrative and phronetic theology of liberation
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Buck, Richard Anthony and Ward, Graham
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Knowledge, Sociology of ,Virtue epistemology ,Narrative theology ,Liberation theology ,Theology ,Cognitive science ,Theology, Doctrinal ,Hermeneutics ,Knowledge, Theory of - Abstract
What if, far from being a centre or force of liberation, academic theology itself needs liberation? Considering this requires theological reflexivity concerning theology's purpose and praxis and sociological reflexivity concerning how the field of theology functions as a system. Pierre Bourdieu's method of sociological analysis is especially suited to facilitating this reflexivity. Employing a pioneering Bourdieusien analysis through a case study of the Yale School of Narrative Theology, this interdisciplinary thesis explores how in allowing a set of reductive and non-inclusive epistemic assumptions to control the mode theologising, the field of theology has perpetuated symbolic violence, namely a legitimation of the status quo of theological mode. In this analysis, those from marginalised communities suffer most, either by being forced to theologise according to the dictates of the dominant or by being disregarded in or disenfranchised from participation. However, the assumption of an abstractionist discursive mode for theological epistemology also renders it epistemically reductive: both of the modes of theological production and knowledge and of the sociological dimensions of doing theology. So, building upon our Bourdieusien analysis and synthesis of the Yale School's theological insights, we construct a truly productive narrative and phronetic theology of liberation through love that removes symbolic violence from theology without resorting to it. Through dialogue with Gustavo Gutiérrez, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Bourdieu, Cognitive Science of Narrative, and Christian Scripture we construct a dialectic and phronetic epistemology of love in which one loves in order to know. This removes symbolic violence from academic theological epistemology by embracing creative dialectical subjectivity and objectivity in knowing through love. Inseparable from this, we uncover the fundamentally existential origins of symbolic violence and narrate an alternative to legitimation-through-power in Christ incarnate and crucified expressing a radical embodied solidarity with God and humanity in love.
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- 2022
5. The Blackstar: Persona, narrative, and late style in the mourning of David Bowie on Reddit
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Culbert, Samiran
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- 2020
6. Julian Reads Langland.
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Zeeman, Nicolette
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NARRATIVE theology , *THEOLOGY , *CHRISTIANS - Abstract
Between writing the "Short" and the "Long" versions of the Revelations of Divine Love, Julian of Norwich might have read Piers Plowman. This article argues that Julian learned from Langland something about how to use narrative as part of her exploration and reformulation of the complex and seemingly contradictory theology of the Fall and redemption, focusing on the remarkably similar ways in which Langland and Julian narrate the Fall in, respectively, the tree of charite sequence and the lord and servant example. In each case, a narrative of eager, loving desire leads seemingly accidentally, and yet apparently inevitably, to a disastrous "fall." Julian may have discovered in Piers Plowman a method of engaging with the conceptual challenges posed by the problematic relationship between the human will and recuperative divine love. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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7. ارزیابی مدل الهیات روایی مکتب ییل با تاکید بر مفهوم روایت.
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سیدامیررضا مزار
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Narrative is a way to understand human affairs. Among these is the understanding of man himself. Human experiences need a mediator called narrative to be understood. It provides a possibility for self-expression, known as engaged self. This engaged self in the religious lived world is affected by the narratives that shape experiences. A movement in Christian theology called Narrative Theology attempted to show that the religious man’s understanding of himself in the modern world is formed through biblical stories. Addressing the problem of human requirements in the modern world, narrative theology designed a system of thought based on narrative. This article aims to show the meaning of engaged self-based on narrative, and then, with a brief presentation of Yale school’s narrative theology, it will describe the basis of the narrative concept. Finally, it will present criticisms based on the narrative concept by evaluating the mentioned theology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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8. Jesús de Nazaret: una espiritualidad geográfica.
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Negral, Francisco
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SPIRITUALITY , *SPATIAL analysis (Statistics) , *THEOLOGY , *NARRATIVES , *MEMOIRS - Abstract
This article is a geographical and spatial analysis of the figure of Jesus, an outline of narrative theology and geographical spirituality: from the first stages of his life and message to the last moments of his existence on this world, from Nazareth to Golgotha. Particular attention will be given to the beginning of Jesus’s public life, as well as to some moments during his final days. It is hoped that the reader will gain a feel for the spiritual dimension of space, and of the connections between external geography and human interiority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
9. Images of Pain, Images of Hope: African Films as Narrative Theologies of Gender and Sexuality.
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Knauss, Stefanie
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AFRICAN films , *HOMOPHOBIA , *THEOLOGY - Abstract
Cinema is one of the great media of storytelling that, with its images and sounds, draws viewers into a different world and addresses their bodies, minds, and hearts. In this contribution, I will develop an argument for African cinema as a source of narrative theology that is contextual and liberative in its critical and constructive functions. In conversation with African women's and queer theologies, I will then reconstruct the narrative theologies emerging from films produced in Africa that address women's issues and diverse sexualities. I argue that they develop, through images of the pain of sexism and homophobia, a theology of hope of flourishing life. Thus, they contribute to the life of a church that is able to overcome prejudice, recognizes the gifts of its diverse communities, and is a space for all to flourish in love. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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10. (Practical) Theology: A story of doubt and imagination.
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Muller, Julian C.
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IMAGINATION , *DESPAIR , *THEOLOGY , *PRACTICAL theology , *SOCIAL background , *INSTALLATION art - Abstract
Theology as a story of doubt and imagination is to be understood against the background of interdisciplinary social science and in contrast to the traditional paradigm of theology as a system of propositional certainty. The concepts of doubt and imagination are part and parcel of narrative research and can also be linked to postfoundational philosophy. The relevancy of this theological paradigm will be discussed on the basis of the following: (1) It is in touch with its own doubt, (2) It is in touch with its own story (tradition), (3) It can therefore interact with other stories, stories of hope and despair, stories of suffering, stories of power and of marginalisation, (4) It can also imagine alternative stories. Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The interaction with 'other stories', which is one of the important outcomes of this postfoundational approach, makes it possible for theology to be a humble but important participant at the interdisciplinary conversational table. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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11. (Practical) Theology: A story of doubt and imagination
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Julian C. Muller
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practical theology ,postfoundational ,installation art ,narrative theology ,autobiography. ,Practical Theology ,BV1-5099 - Abstract
Theology as a story of doubt and imagination is to be understood against the background of interdisciplinary social science and in contrast to the traditional paradigm of theology as a system of propositional certainty. The concepts of doubt and imagination are part and parcel of narrative research and can also be linked to postfoundational philosophy. The relevancy of this theological paradigm will be discussed on the basis of the following: (1) It is in touch with its own doubt, (2) It is in touch with its own story (tradition), (3) It can therefore interact with other stories, stories of hope and despair, stories of suffering, stories of power and of marginalisation, (4) It can also imagine alternative stories. Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The interaction with ‘other stories’, which is one of the important outcomes of this postfoundational approach, makes it possible for theology to be a humble but important participant at the interdisciplinary conversational table.
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- 2023
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12. Hiobs Begegnung
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Wiesenhütter, Lukas
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Eleonore Stump ,Franciscan Knowledge ,Franziskanisches Wissen ,Free Will Defense ,Islamic Law ,Islamisches Recht ,Johann Baptist Metz ,Leid ,Leiden ,Narrative Theologie ,Narrative theology ,Political Theology ,Politische Theologie ,Problem des Leidens ,Problem of Evil ,Suffering ,Verteidigung des freien Willens ,thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFZ Sign languages, Braille and other linguistic communication - Abstract
Das Theodizeeproblem stellt den Gottesglauben in Frage. Wie ist dieser angesichts des Leidens in der Welt zu rechtfertigen? Jede Antwort auf diese Frage steht in der Gefahr, das Leid zu verharmlosen oder dem Einwand nicht mit Argumenten begegnen zu können. Die Arbeit widmet sich zunächst christlichen Lösungsversuchen, ehe sie diese in das Gespräch mit islamisch-theologischen Zugängen bringt. Unter Aufnahme der Kategorien der Philosophin Eleonore Stump wird aus christlicher Perspektive ein wertschätzender Zugang zum Koran entwickelt. Dieser soll verstehen helfen, wie Leiderfahrungen koranisch thematisiert werden. Zudem wird das islamische Recht als die symbolische Möglichkeit interpretiert, wie die im Theodizeeproblem angefragte Gerechtigkeit Gottes im Hier und Jetzt konkret werden kann. So nimmt die Arbeit das Gespräch über eine Frage auf, die sich Theologien unterschiedlicher Konfessionen stellt, und zeigt, wie die komparativ-theologische Forschung die Perspektive weiten kann. The book examines Christian answers to the problem of evil before bringing them into dialogue with Islamic perspectives. Drawing on the work of Eleonore Stump, it approaches the Quran’s response to suffering. Then, Islamic law is interpreted as the symbolic place for anticipating God’s justice. These attempts seek to answer what Christian theology might learn from Islamic approaches to theodicy.
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- 2024
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13. Beyond Literal Idolatry: Imagining Faith through Creatively Changing Identities.
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Boscaljon, Daniel
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IMAGINATION , *IDOLATRY , *IDENTITY (Psychology) , *SOCIAL institutions , *FAITH , *PUBLIC spaces - Abstract
This is Part I of a triptych. It addresses the latent potential of the imagination in constructing a sense of identity. Included is the role of faith in overcoming the obstacles presented by a social imaginary dominated by literal idolatry that leads to unnecessary suffering. The initial foundation examines the process of growth and the role that the imagination plays in the construction of narrative identity—an important part of human development. Literal idolatry interrupts this original process through the creation of a social imaginary that corrupts natural measures for self-correction. At the same time, a creative faith contains the capacity to dislodge the rigid boundaries of literal idolatry. A creative faith narrative identities in ways that open beyond simple coherence and completeness. It can also revitalize social institutions and public spaces. The argument concludes by arguing fictional narratives augment the work of theology in grounding and inspiring creative faith. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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14. The triune God and the hermeneutics of community : church, gender and mission in Stanley J. Grenz with reference to Paul Ricoeur
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Almon, Russell Lane, Grumett, David, and Fergusson, David
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230 ,Stanley J. Grenz ,Paul Ricoeur ,Trinitarian theology ,narrative theology ,missional theology ,ecclesiology ,social Trinity ,Christology ,Theosis ,Imago Dei ,gender ,mutuality ,Cruciformity ,community ,theological anthropology ,theological ethics ,theological hermeneutics ,philosophical hermeneutics ,postmodernism - Abstract
The aim of this dissertation is to undertake a study of the trinitarian ecclesiology of the North American evangelical theologian Stanley J. Grenz (d.2005), along with his imago Dei theology, revisioned social trinitarianism, narrative theology, incorporation of theosis, and theology of triune participation. This dissertation also utilizes the hermeneutical philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, in conjunction with Grenz’s trinitarian ecclesiology, to propose a missional and hermeneutical ecclesiology. Chapter one begins with an overview of Grenz’s theology and a discussion of the current state of Grenz scholarship. It then introduces Ricoeur’s hermeneutics of the self and theory of narrative identity. The chapter concludes with an overview of chapters two, three, and four. Chapter two traces the manner in which Grenz’s social trinitarianism and imago Dei theology yield a social imago. The first section overviews Grenz’s The Social God and the Relational Self, the social imago, the ecclesial self, his notion of ecclesial eschatological prolepsis, and his theology of triune participation. The second section responds to key criticisms of social trinitarianism, discusses Grenz and Ricoeur on the relational self, and outlines the manner in which Grenz’s theology of theosis and triune participation “in Christ” and through the Spirit yields an ecclesially oriented communal theo-anthropology. The final section takes up Grenz’s social imago and triune participation in relation to female/male mutuality in ecclesial participation and community. Chapter three discusses Grenz’s narrative theology and the development of a narrative imago. The first section overviews Grenz’s The Named God and the Question of Being and his development of the narrative of the divine name as the saga of the triune God, his further use of theosis, and the narrative imago arising within storied participation “in Christ” through the Spirit. The second section examines the continuity of Named God with Social God and argues that Grenz presents a revisioned social trinitarianism. The second section also considers Grenz and Ricoeur on the narrative self and proposes that Grenz’s ecclesial theo-anthropology now becomes a cruciform Christo-anthropology. The third section takes up the narrative imago and female/male mutuality and cruciformity as it arises from the ecclesial relation of storied and communal theotic triune participation. Chapter four treats the development of a Grenzian ecclesial imago and proposes a missional and hermeneutical ecclesiology. The first section presents Grenz’s ecclesiology as it is oriented towards mission and the connection of theosis, triune participation, and ecclesia. This section then proposes a missional grammar for the church as God’s ecclesial hermeneutics of community. The second section discusses potential charges of ecclesiological foundationalism, considers Grenz and Ricoeur on the summoned self, and extends Grenz’s theo-anthropology and Christo-anthropology into a missio-anthropology. The third section considers the mutuality and cruciformity of ecclesial “male and female” relation “in Christ” and through the Spirit, manifest in ecclesial friendship and hospitality, as the coming-to-representation and hermeneutics of community of the triune God. The conclusion offers a summary and possible avenues for further investigation.
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- 2018
15. Beyond Literal Idolatry: Translating Theo-Logos from Judgment to Love.
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Boscaljon, Daniel
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IDOLATRY , *RELIGIOUS psychology , *LOVE of God , *PARABLES , *GOD , *PSYCHODYNAMICS , *ROMANTIC love - Abstract
This article explores the capacity for narrating the name of God as a way to liberate the suffering of the world. The first section of this article offers a brief overview of Walter Benjamin's linguistic theory as it relates to the issue of literal idolatry. In the second section, the content of exploring Ricoeur's movement toward a poetic faith creates a formal anomaly in which his "byway" is something that may be crucial for readers or may be unnecessary: it speaks to the discontinuity and rupture enabled by incorporating silence into speech. The third section flows from the first and third, discussing the difficulty and importance of naming God as an embodied speech act. This looks at the particular situation of parables, including perspectives from Thomas Altizer and J. Hillis Miller. The fourth section focuses on the psychodynamic work of Jessica Benjamin as it models a way of bringing an embodied witness to the world in a performance of divine love. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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16. Beyond Literal Idolatry: Expectations and Hope in the Field of Narrative Theology.
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Boscaljon, Daniel
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IMAGINATION , *IDOLATRY , *INTELLECT , *RELIGIOUS symbols , *THEOLOGY , *PATTERN recognition systems , *HOPE - Abstract
This article examines the role of hope relative to the unexplored potential of narrative theology as a particular mode of thinking. The first section provides a brief introduction. The second section begins by discussing the world of experience as postulated by Alfred North Whitehead: I argue that literal idolatry forms as a specific technology based around the use of symbols. The third section explores the resources of narrative as a centrifugal model of metaphor that serves as a robust alternative literal idolatry: I argue that narratives develop the intellect through pattern recognition and the imagination through empathetic recognition, and then describe how narrative theory's emphasis on focalized perspectives opens hopeful expectations of the future. The fourth section explores Ricoeur's work in narrative theology, defining it as a "field" whose dynamic emphasis on tension provides an alternative to the static, "closed circuit" of religious symbols. The final section looks at Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist as a contemporary novel that seems to fit with Ricoeur's stipulations for what generates a field of narrative theology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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17. Humanism Reformed: Narrative and the Divine-Human Encounter in Paul Ricoeur.
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Whitehouse, Glenn
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HUMANISM , *SEVENTEENTH century , *NARRATIVES , *THEOLOGY , *REFORMS , *PROTESTANTS - Abstract
"Narrative Theology" has often been construed in contrast to broader humanistic discourse. Protestant and particularly Reformed Christianity has often set the "Old, Old Story" apart from humanism and the humanities. This chapter explores the juxtaposition of humanism and reformed thinking in Paul Ricoeur. Ricoeur's hermeneutics is compared with the Reformed "covenant theology" of 17th Century Puritanism. Covenant theology balanced the belief that God exceeds our powers of knowing and language and the conviction that God consents to be known within the limits of human understanding, as developed through the liberal arts. Similarly, Ricoeur sees God as limiting and disrupting human language, but while, for Ricoeur, encounter with God may begin as impossible dialogue, it develops by dispersing the names and signs of the divine throughout the tropes and genres of human discourse, narrative chief among them. Ricoeur's thought is interpreted as a Christian humanism in which religious inquiry and secular humanistic thought coexist and mutually enhance one another. Ricoeur's humanism will be preferred over approaches to narrative that set the Christian story and its hearers apart from the broader conversation of culture; a solipsism of faith is inadequate to the challenges of a modern pluralist culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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18. A Beautiful Failure: The Tragic—And Luminous—Life of Jim Harvey (An Experiment in Narrative Theology).
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Elwell, J. Sage
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AESTHETICS , *METAPHOR , *ART history , *ART theory , *ABSTRACT expressionism , *AESTHETICS of art , *THEOLOGY , *POP art - Abstract
Jim Harvey was the artist who created the Brillo box that Andy Warhol copied and made famous. Warhol's Brillo Boxes changed the course of art history and the entire field of aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Meanwhile, Jim Harvey died a failed second-generation Abstract Expressionist. To his death, Harvey refused to accept that his Brillo box was a work of art. However, the theory—the story—that was woven about Warhol's Brillo Boxes transformed them from commonplace objects into multimillion-dollar masterpieces. As a counterbalance, this article appeals to narrative theology as a way to tell Jim Harvey's story. Appealing to narrative theologian James McClendon's notion that a biography can reveal an image—a metaphor—that serves as a prism through which that individual's life can be seen and understood, this article suggests that the defining metaphor of Jim's life was "artists are prophets". Importantly, this essay is not an attempt to redeem Harvey's artistry, although it may provoke a reconsideration of his work. Rather, it is an exploration of the tragic and luminous life of a beautiful failure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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19. Telling God's Story : The Biblical Narrative From Beginning to End
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Preben Vang, Terry G. Carter, Preben Vang, and Terry G. Carter
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- Narrative theology
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Telling God's Story looks closely at the Bible from its beginning in Genesis to its conclusion in Revelation. By approaching Scripture as one purposefully flowing narrative, emphasizing the inter-connectedness of the text, veteran college professors Preben Vang and Terry G. Carter reinforce the Bible's greatest teachings and help readers in their own ability to share God's story effectively with others. Updated to include more interaction with biblical theology and a new section on the intertestamental period, this third edition of Telling God's Story is ideal for Christians seeking to grow in their understanding of God's Word.
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- 2021
20. The Gospels As Stories : A Narrative Approach to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
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Brown, Jeannine K. and Brown, Jeannine K.
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- Narrative theology
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A popular writer and teacher shows how a narrative approach illuminates each of the Gospels, helping readers see the overarching stories.
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- 2020
21. Framing Baptist Identity.
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Freeman, Curtis W.
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BAPTISTS , *FRAMES (Social sciences) , *BAPTIST church buildings - Abstract
This article frames the question of Baptist identity as a narratively formed construct. It qualifies this description and then tests the qualified identity framework by exploring the stories of the Baptists in Great Britain and North India, asking how we might understand these different versions as part of the same story. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
22. The Contribution and Reduction of Narrative Theology to Biblical Hermeneutics in the Postmodern Era
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Oscard L. Tobing
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hermeneutics ,narrative theology ,postliberal ,postmodern ,tradition ,community ,Philosophy. Psychology. Religion ,Christianity ,BR1-1725 - Abstract
This research examines narrative theology, which began to develop in the 1970s in the United States, and is now widely practiced in theological discourses, including in Indonesia. This theology, sometimes called postliberal theology, uses the postmodern interpretation paradigm, which seeks the meaning “in front of” the text (readers-oriented). The intended readers are the community, who have the same language, culture, and traditions. It turns out that narrative theology, which initially served as a theological reflection on Christianity’s claims to the biblical texts, has shifted into a hermeneutical lens in reading the biblical texts. Using analytical studies of library research and systematic review, the author discusses the contours of narrative theology starting from the thoughts of its pioneers (such as Hans W. Frei, George A. Lindbeck, Stanley Hauerwas, and Sally McFague), describing its characteristics, and evaluating them. The analysis results are presented in two points. The first is an appreciation of the contributions of narrative theology, i.e., simple-practical, confessional-dogmatic, relational, and inductive. The second is an evaluation of some reductive aspects of narrative theology, i.e., postmodern hermeneutics; a disregard of historicity and genre diversity; traditional-dogmatic fideism; sectarianism; and pragmatism.
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- 2021
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23. Let There Be Cain: A Clash of Imaginations in Genesis 4.
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Mann, Steven T.
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SPEECH acts (Linguistics) , *HUMANITY - Abstract
This article contributes to the ongoing discussion of the story of Cain by exploring the speeches within Genesis 4 as speech acts. The investigation will focus on two narrative levels of analysis, the story level (the viewpoint of the characters) and the storyteller level (the presentation of the narrative to the audience). The speech acts in this story display a clash of imaginations, with Eve and Yhwh on one side and Cain and Lamech on the other. On the story level, Eve and Yhwh imagine the world in ways that resist human sin and violence and that celebrate God's relationship with humanity. Cain and Lamech reject this notion and choose to focus only on themselves. On the storyteller level, the speech acts of Genesis 4 invite the audience to adopt and celebrate the imaginations of Eve and Yhwh and to reject the imaginations of Cain and Lamech. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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24. Genesis 1–11 : A Narrative-Theological Commentary
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James Chukwuma Okoye and James Chukwuma Okoye
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- Narrative theology
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Genesis 1-11: A Narrative Theological Commentary combines critical acumen with concern for the theological message of Scripture. It is a commentary in two stages. First, the text is allowed to speak for itself, using a narrative approach. Then, specific Jewish and Christian traditions flowing from the text are identified, and the underlying hermeneutical moves analyzed.
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- 2018
25. God’s Curriculum: Reimagining Education as a Journey Towards Shalom
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Benson, David M., Luetz, Johannes M., editor, Dowden, Tony, editor, and Norsworthy, Beverley, editor
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- 2018
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26. Beyond Literal Idolatry: Imagining Faith through Creatively Changing Identities
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Daniel Boscaljon
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Judith Butler ,faith ,idolatry ,narrative identity ,narrative theology ,Paul Ricoeur ,Religions. Mythology. Rationalism ,BL1-2790 - Abstract
This is Part I of a triptych. It addresses the latent potential of the imagination in constructing a sense of identity. Included is the role of faith in overcoming the obstacles presented by a social imaginary dominated by literal idolatry that leads to unnecessary suffering. The initial foundation examines the process of growth and the role that the imagination plays in the construction of narrative identity—an important part of human development. Literal idolatry interrupts this original process through the creation of a social imaginary that corrupts natural measures for self-correction. At the same time, a creative faith contains the capacity to dislodge the rigid boundaries of literal idolatry. A creative faith narrative identities in ways that open beyond simple coherence and completeness. It can also revitalize social institutions and public spaces. The argument concludes by arguing fictional narratives augment the work of theology in grounding and inspiring creative faith.
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- 2022
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
27. Dialogical narrative approach to enhance critical thinking and student engagement during lecture-based classes
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Ghiam, BK, Loftus, S, and Kamel-ElSayed, S
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- 2019
28. Everyday language practices of refugee background youth in New Zealand
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Pak, SeungHee Cindy
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- 2019
29. N. T. Wright: Interpreting the Interpreter Collected Essays of N. T. WrightInterpreting Scripture: Essays on the Bible and HermeneuticsInterpreting Jesus: Essays on the GospelsInterpreting Paul: Essays on the Apostle and His Letters.
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O'Leary, Joseph S.
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DOCTRINAL theology , *SACRED space , *PROBLEM solving , *HYMNS , *APOSTLES , *KINGDOM of God ,BIBLICAL theology - Abstract
These thoroughly engaged and engaging essays invite reflection on Bishop Wright's practice and principles as an interpreter of Scripture and of the Christian faith in today's context. Wright wants to reground theology in a biblical narrative and considers that systematic theology has been impoverished by forgetfulness of its roots in the story of God's Covenant with humanity. This story contains in concrete form all the truths that later theology painfully spelled out in categories that were not always appropriate. Systematic theologians might reply that doctrine, whether of the Fathers or of the Reformers, has allowed a penetrating interpretation of Scripture, which otherwise could lack its full existential and spiritual impact. Wright's over‐arching biblical story tends to become drab and to generate biblicism rather than a repristinated biblical theology. His recommendation that we solve problems of modern life by recalling our roots in the biblical story may be a simplistic nostrum. Wright's theology is thoroughly incarnational. Salvation is the emergence of God's Kingdom on this earth. He claims to be a creational monotheist, not a Platonic dualist. He stresses the collective dimensions of salvation, sometimes sounding like a liberation theologian. While his sense for sacred times and sacred places is an incarnational emphasis, his focus on the sacral theme of the Temple in John and throughout the New Testament might be an idealizing construction that takes away from his effort to understand Jesus in his historical world. His hermeneutics could be more flexible and effective if he opened up more to the pluralistic open‐endedness of the biblical texts (not just the eschatological openness at the end of the story), or if he were more ready to delight in the literary qualities of Scripture for their own sake. While he skillfully skewers some trendy movements in Jesus research and Pauline studies, his skepticism about Q and ascription of the hymns in Philippians, Colossians, and Ephesians to the pen of the Apostle exemplify a literary conservatism that may generate a monochrome reading. In Christology, his repeated declaration that Jesus 'embodied Israel's God' hovers between a 'high' and a 'low' interpretation, indicating that his 'early High Christology' is not a stable and monolithic formation. Wright, an outstanding pastor and apologist, finally may lay claim to the watchword of 'missional hermeneutics' such as Paul practiced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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30. Christian Hope Among Rivals : How Life-Organizing Stories Anticipate the End of Evil
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Michael W. Zeigler and Michael W. Zeigler
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- Narrative theology, Theodicy, Storytelling—Religious aspects—Christianity
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Hope is a widespread, if not a universal, human experience. For centuries, followers of Jesus of Nazareth have ordered their lives around a central hope. How is their experience similar to or different from others who live by hope? This book seeks an answer in the idea that living by hope involves living within a peculiar story of the world--an incomplete story. The stories that shape these hopes are threatened by evil, however it may be defined. The hopeful struggle as characters caught up in plots that move toward resolution. They exercise an as-yet unverified hope that evil will not prevail. In this regard, the hope of Christians is similar to others. Yet, it is different because they wait for the God of Jesus to transform the world to match the promise he made to Abraham. To arrive at this conclusion, this book takes a detour through four model life-organizing stories. Christians and participants in other stories-of-the-world may not agree on the ultimate ground for hope. However, taking a detour into the hopeful experience of another may help uncover a place where rivals can stand together long enough to talk.
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- 2017
31. Beyond Literal Idolatry: Translating Theo-Logos from Judgment to Love
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Daniel Boscaljon
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narrative theology ,constructive theology ,psychology and religion ,social justice ,love ,Religions. Mythology. Rationalism ,BL1-2790 - Abstract
This article explores the capacity for narrating the name of God as a way to liberate the suffering of the world. The first section of this article offers a brief overview of Walter Benjamin’s linguistic theory as it relates to the issue of literal idolatry. In the second section, the content of exploring Ricoeur’s movement toward a poetic faith creates a formal anomaly in which his “byway” is something that may be crucial for readers or may be unnecessary: it speaks to the discontinuity and rupture enabled by incorporating silence into speech. The third section flows from the first and third, discussing the difficulty and importance of naming God as an embodied speech act. This looks at the particular situation of parables, including perspectives from Thomas Altizer and J. Hillis Miller. The fourth section focuses on the psychodynamic work of Jessica Benjamin as it models a way of bringing an embodied witness to the world in a performance of divine love.
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- 2022
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32. Beyond Literal Idolatry: Expectations and Hope in the Field of Narrative Theology
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Daniel Boscaljon
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Alfred North Whitehead ,Paul Tillich ,Paul Ricoeur ,hope ,narrative theology ,narrative theory ,Religions. Mythology. Rationalism ,BL1-2790 - Abstract
This article examines the role of hope relative to the unexplored potential of narrative theology as a particular mode of thinking. The first section provides a brief introduction. The second section begins by discussing the world of experience as postulated by Alfred North Whitehead: I argue that literal idolatry forms as a specific technology based around the use of symbols. The third section explores the resources of narrative as a centrifugal model of metaphor that serves as a robust alternative literal idolatry: I argue that narratives develop the intellect through pattern recognition and the imagination through empathetic recognition, and then describe how narrative theory’s emphasis on focalized perspectives opens hopeful expectations of the future. The fourth section explores Ricoeur’s work in narrative theology, defining it as a “field” whose dynamic emphasis on tension provides an alternative to the static, “closed circuit” of religious symbols. The final section looks at Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist as a contemporary novel that seems to fit with Ricoeur’s stipulations for what generates a field of narrative theology.
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- 2022
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33. Humanism Reformed: Narrative and the Divine-Human Encounter in Paul Ricoeur
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Glenn Whitehouse
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Ricoeur ,Hauerwas ,narrative theology ,narrative ,hermeneutics ,covenant theology ,Religions. Mythology. Rationalism ,BL1-2790 - Abstract
“Narrative Theology” has often been construed in contrast to broader humanistic discourse. Protestant and particularly Reformed Christianity has often set the “Old, Old Story” apart from humanism and the humanities. This chapter explores the juxtaposition of humanism and reformed thinking in Paul Ricoeur. Ricoeur’s hermeneutics is compared with the Reformed “covenant theology” of 17th Century Puritanism. Covenant theology balanced the belief that God exceeds our powers of knowing and language and the conviction that God consents to be known within the limits of human understanding, as developed through the liberal arts. Similarly, Ricoeur sees God as limiting and disrupting human language, but while, for Ricoeur, encounter with God may begin as impossible dialogue, it develops by dispersing the names and signs of the divine throughout the tropes and genres of human discourse, narrative chief among them. Ricoeur’s thought is interpreted as a Christian humanism in which religious inquiry and secular humanistic thought coexist and mutually enhance one another. Ricoeur’s humanism will be preferred over approaches to narrative that set the Christian story and its hearers apart from the broader conversation of culture; a solipsism of faith is inadequate to the challenges of a modern pluralist culture.
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- 2022
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34. Does the Spirit Have a Story? A Narrative Theology of the Holy Spirit.
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THORNHILL, A. CHADWICK
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- 2020
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35. بررسی نگرش درونمتنی به دین در الهیات معاصر.
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صفدر الهی راد
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New theological schools try to overcome the theological concerns of the postmodern approach by presenting methods that are different from those of former approaches. Some of these theological concerns have arisen under the influence of the challenges of pluralism and profound diversity in theology, as well as the conflicts between science and religion. The present study explains and examines one of the new approaches of religious philosophy to theology and understanding of religion, namely the intra-textual approach. The intra-textual approach, developed in the mid-twentieth century under the influence of late Wittgenstein’s ideas as well as narrative theology, holds that religious knowledge should not rely on external factors and matters outside the religious texts. Rather, the text itself must be understood in terms of language and its internal rules because any intervention of external factors causes deviation from the truth of religion and faith. The intra-textual approach, with a non-realistic attitude, even believes that we should not consider real referents for religion and religious texts and should not understand them in association with external realities. That is, religious faith and understanding are nothing but a direct presence in touch with the text. This approach is not able to solve the conflict between science and religion, and suffers from fundamental challenges due to its fideistic attitude and also its functional and unrealistic attitude towards religion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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36. Pastoral Care : Telling the Stories of Our Lives
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Karen D. Scheib and Karen D. Scheib
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- Narrative theology, Pastoral care
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Pastoral Care affirms the historic link between Christian formation and pastoral care by locating the distinctive nature of pastoral care in the mission of the church to form persons in the Christian life of love. Drawing primarily on the theological concept of sanctification and using insights from narrative psychological theory, this text presents a praxis-oriented model of pastoral care as companionship. Pastoral caregivers, it suggests, are called to be companions growing in love, walking alongside others who are likewise growing in love of God, self, and other. Such pastoral caregivers engage their companions in narrative, relational, and prophetic practices in multiple settings.
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- 2016
37. The Evolution of the ṣāraʿat Ritual in Leviticus 13:1‐46.
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Skidmore, Simon
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BIBLICAL studies , *NARRATIVE theology , *CHRONOLOGY , *CHRISTIANITY ,BIBLICAL theology - Abstract
The problematic assumption that biblical purity thematically represents life and death is commonly held within modern biblical studies. Building upon this assumption, many scholars have attempted to explain the treatment of the ṣāraʿat patient in Leviticus 13:1‐46 as a symbolic banishment of death. However, the current paper attempts to move beyond this reading towards a method of reconstructing the evolution of biblical rituals and practices. Through the utilisation of René Girard's four scapegoat stereotypes, the current paper identifies the scapegoat mechanism in Leviticus 13:1‐46, and reconstructs a proposed evolution of this ritual. This paper suggests that the ritual presented in Leviticus 13:1‐46 may have evolved from an earlier tradition, in which ṣāraʿat patients were executed to halt a mimetic crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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38. Redating Narrative Theology: A Challenge to The Conventional Chronology.
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Pickering, David
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CHRONOLOGY , *NARRATIVE theology , *CHRISTIANITY , *BIBLICAL studies ,BIBLICAL theology - Abstract
This essay considers the work of G.K. Chesterton, and in particular The Everlasting Man, in relation to narrative theology. It discusses the apparent contradiction between Aidan Nichols' judgement that this book develops a 'Christocentric theology of history' and Chesterton's own assertion that its approach is 'historical rather than theological'. It argues that Chesterton employs both natural and narrative theology in The Everlasting Man, and these two forms of theology frame a reading of the book which resolves the seeming contradiction between Nichols' and Chesterton's views, while also challenging the conventional chronology used in discussions of narrative theology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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39. Missional Resistance: The Man in the High Castle 's Hope for an Alternate Reality.
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Parker, Stephen
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CASTLES , *NAZI Germany, 1933-1945 , *KINGDOM of God , *CHRISTIAN missions , *TELEVISION series , *SOCIAL problems , *THEODICY , *SUCCESS - Abstract
The television series Man in the High Castle is set in an alternate United States of America reality where Nazi Germany and Japan won World War II. This paper explores the saga's themes narratively, scripturally, and missionally, engaging with various cultural, religious, and mission studies. The resistance theme of The Man in the High Castle in particular provides a useful parallel to Christian mission that is surprisingly resonant both with scripture and with Benjamin Simon's three pillars of mission. The oppressive values of the conquering empires lead to an awareness that there is a problem with the world, which encourages Christians toward mission and the series' Americans toward resistance. Finally, the success in The Man in the High Castle of sharing stories of "another world" as a scheme of resistance provides a useful strategy for Christians today. Mission, with a Man in the High Castle flavour, becomes an act of resistance to oppressive evil through the sharing of stories of the coming kingdom of God. Simon's three pillars of mission can all be seen in the approaches to mission seen from the series. Because the world is filled with oppressive values and needs Christian resistance, the pillar of transformation is required. The idea of sharing stories of an alternate world, the kingdom of God, is also an example of both gospel transmission and gospel translation into a fresh context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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40. A Narrative Theology of the New Testament : Exploring the Metanarrative of Exile and Restoration
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Timo Eskola and Timo Eskola
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- Narrative theology, Eschatology, Hermeneutics
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The theory on restoration eschatology proposed by Sanders and Wright provides the cornerstone for Timo Eskola's building up of the premise that the metanarrative of exile and restoration can be used as an explanation when explicating New Testament theology. Jewish texts foretold that the Messiah would end Israel's exile and build for God an eschatological temple wherewith Jesus went on to proclaim the contrast between the corrupt earthly temple and his own heavenly one. This teaching brought to an end the exilic condition which had persisted throughout the centuries. For Jesus, the era starting with John the Baptist was one filled with tribulations and inter-familial strife which saw Israel continue to kill prophets. The implication is that the Son of Man must suffer too in order for peace to reign in Israel, with the resurrection of Jesus representing the end-time enthronement when God is crowned King and those living in slavery to sin are released. The early Christology developed by Jesus'followers presents the Savior as Christ and Ruler of the new kingdom of peace who grants the fruits of restoration to those faithful to him. The author recognizes a direct connection between Jesus'eschatology and early enthronement Christology, and discusses several christological narratives which elaborate on different restoration eschatology features. The metanarrative has shed light on essential features in Second Temple nomism and Pauline concepts about the law. Furthermore, it helps explain the nature of justification and has proven invaluable when interpreting the new community as Christ's temple where the Holy Spirit has returned.
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- 2015
41. Narrative Theology and the Hermeneutical Virtues : Humility, Patience, Prudence
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Jacob L. Goodson and Jacob L. Goodson
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- Narrative theology
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Dr. Jacob L. Goodson will be doing a book signing for Narrative Theology and the Hermeneutical Virtues: Humility, Patience, Prudence at Eighth Day Books in Wichita, KS, on Saturday March 21, 2015, at 4:00pm.In Narrative Theology and the Hermeneutical Virtues: Humility, Patience, Prudence, Jacob L. Goodson offers a philosophical analysis of the arguments and tendencies of Hans Frei's and Stanley Hauerwas'narrative theologies. Narrative theology names a way of doing theology and thinking theologically that is part of a greater movement called “the return to Scripture.” The return to Scripture movement makes a case for Scripture as the proper object of study within Christian theology, philosophy of religion, and religious ethics. While thinkers within this movement agree that Scripture is the proper object of study within philosophy and religious studies, there is major disagreement over what the word “narrative” describes in narrative theology. The Yale theologian, Hans Frei, argues that because Scripture is the proper object of study within Christian theology and the philosophy of religion, Scripture must be the exclusive object of study. To think theologically means paying as close attention as possible to the details of the biblical narratives in their “literal sense.” Different from Frei's contentions, the Christian ethicist at Duke University, Stanley Hauerwas claims: if Scripture is the proper object of study within Christian theology, then the category of narrative teaches us that we ought to give our scholarly attention to the interpretations and performances of Scripture. Hauerwas emphasizes the continuity between the biblical narratives and the traditions of the church. This disagreement is best described as a hermeneutical one: Frei thinks that the primary place where interpretation happens is in the text; Hauerwas thinks that the primary place where interpretation occurs is in the community of interpreters. In order to move beyond the dichotomy found between Frei's and Hauerwas'work, but to remain within the return to Scripture movement, Goodson constructs three hermeneutical virtues: humility, patience, and prudence. These virtues help professors and scholars within Christian theology, philosophy of religion, and religious ethics maintain objectivity in their fields of study.
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- 2015
42. Loop, Hook, Pull: Disabled by Design—Creating a Narrative Theology of Disability.
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Stewart, Raedorah C.
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NARRATIVE theology , *WOMANIST theology , *LIBERATION theology - Abstract
As a disabled person, Psalm 139:13–14 has long presented as theologically problematic for me. How could "For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well" fall as praise from my lips when as young as six years old I realized I was differently abled; and that with all of the shameful, negative connotations assumed with being so. The theological narrative about disability centered on sins of the mother, shame of the family, pity of the public, and sympathetically low expectations for achieving, excelling, and fitting into mainstream ableism. This article weaves biographical vignettes and theological reflections to develop a liberation hermeneutic for creating a narrative theology of disability in the church; challenges commonly held perceptions about disabled personhood; examines familiar efforts to enhance the worship experience for disabled persons; admonishes practices which inconvenience or otherwise undermine a disabled parishioner; and examines the efficacy of ministry accommodations to equip disabled persons to worship, serve, and lead in the church. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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43. Origen’s Theological Anthropology
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Alviar, J. José, Heine, Ronald E., book editor, and Torjesen, Karen Jo, book editor
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- 2022
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44. Religious Stories We Live By : Narrative Approaches in Theology and Religious Studies
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R. Ruard Ganzevoort, Maaike de Haardt, Michael Scherer-Rath, R. Ruard Ganzevoort, Maaike de Haardt, and Michael Scherer-Rath
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- Storytelling--Religious aspects--Christianity, Narrative theology, Narration in the Bible
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Stories have always been important in religion, but systematic explorations of the narrative dimensions of religion are more recent and interdisciplinary explorations of narrative approaches in theology and religious studies are scarce. Religious Stories We Live By paves the ground for these much needed interdisciplinary conversations. It first offers philosophical, psychological, and epistemological reflections on the importance of narrative approaches in the study of religion. The subsequent sections contain case studies and disciplinary overviews of narrative perspectives in biblical, empirical, systematic, and historical approaches in theology and religious studies. Combined, the contributions showcase the potential of narrative perspectives in bridging theology and religious studies, as well as descriptive and normative approaches. Narrative perspectives offer a fruitful common ground for the study of religion. Contributors include Angela Berlis, Marjo Buitelaar, James Day, Maaike de Haardt, Marieke den Braber, Luco van den Brom, Marjet Derks, Toke Elshof, Dorothea Erbele Küster, John Exalto, Ruard Ganzevoort, Joep van Gennip, Annelies van Heijst, Chris Hermans, Liesbeth Hoeven, Anne-Marie Korte, Edwin Koster, Marit Monteiro, Michael Scherer-Rath, Klaas Spronk, Piet Verschuren, Wim Weren, and Willien van Wieringen.
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- 2014
45. Go Deeper : Encountering God's Passion
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Ken Jung and Ken Jung
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- Storytelling--Psychological aspects, Storytelling--Religious aspects--Christianity, Narrative theology, Christian life--Biblical teaching
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Encountering God Leads to Spiritual Intimacy and Transformation. Some believe that learning about God is like looking for something inside the refrigerator—the air is cool and you can never find what you're looking for. Or perhaps the word boring best describes your experience of studying theology? Bible studies about knowing God are often mechanical and systematic. In Go Deeper, Ken Jung provides an alternative way—story theology for experiencing God. Go Deeper invites you to explore your relationship with God by placing yourself into the biblical narratives. By doing so, readers will encounter the God who passionately pursues us with His sovereignty, holiness, presence, grace, and love. The result: we are transformed in the process.
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- 2014
46. Is New Testament Theology Still Having an Identity Crisis? A Review of Five Recent Contributions
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Joshua Strahan
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biblical theology ,theological interpretation ,historical criticism ,narrative theology ,history of religions ,canon ,Religions. Mythology. Rationalism ,BL1-2790 - Abstract
This article reviews five recent contributions to the field of New Testament theology. More accurately, three NT theologies will be examined alongside two biblical theologies, given that some regard NT theology as inherently deficient apart from OT theology. These five works are notable not only for their diversity of methodology but also their diversity of cultural perspective—one book by a Finn (Timo Eskola’s A Narrative Theology of the New Testament), one by two Germans (Reinhard Feldmeier’s and Hermann Spieckermann’s God of the Living: A Biblical Theology), one by a Canadian (Thomas R. Hatina’s New Testament Theology and its Quest for Relevance: Ancient Texts and Modern Readers), one by an American (Craig L. Blomberg’s A New Testament Theology), and one by a native Briton (John Goldingay’s Biblical Theology). Along the way, this review article will consider how these works navigate the tricky and contested terrain of NT (or biblical) theology, particularly vis-à-vis matters of history, canon, synthesis and diversity, and contemporary relevance.
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- 2021
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47. Stories theology lives by: a narrative and phronetic theology of liberation
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Buck, RA and Ward, G
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Liberation theology ,Cognitive science ,Hermeneutics ,Knowledge, Sociology of ,Virtue epistemology ,Theology ,Narrative theology ,Knowledge, Theory of ,Theology, Doctrinal - Abstract
What if, far from being a centre or force of liberation, academic theology itself needs liberation? Considering this requires theological reflexivity concerning theology’s purpose and praxis and sociological reflexivity concerning how the field of theology functions as a system. Pierre Bourdieu’s method of sociological analysis is especially suited to facilitating this reflexivity. Employing a pioneering Bourdieusien analysis through a case study of the Yale School of Narrative Theology, this interdisciplinary thesis explores how in allowing a set of reductive and non-inclusive epistemic assumptions to control the mode theologising, the field of theology has perpetuated symbolic violence, namely a legitimation of the status quo of theological mode. In this analysis, those from marginalised communities suffer most, either by being forced to theologise according to the dictates of the dominant or by being disregarded in or disenfranchised from participation. However, the assumption of an abstractionist discursive mode for theological epistemology also renders it epistemically reductive: both of the modes of theological production and knowledge and of the sociological dimensions of doing theology. So, building upon our Bourdieusien analysis and synthesis of the Yale School’s theological insights, we construct a truly productive narrative and phronetic theology of liberation through love that removes symbolic violence from theology without resorting to it. Through dialogue with Gustavo Gutiérrez, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Bourdieu, Cognitive Science of Narrative, and Christian Scripture we construct a dialectic and phronetic epistemology of love in which one loves in order to know. This removes symbolic violence from academic theological epistemology by embracing creative dialectical subjectivity and objectivity in knowing through love. Inseparable from this, we uncover the fundamentally existential origins of symbolic violence and narrate an alternative to legitimation-through-power in Christ incarnate and crucified expressing a radical embodied solidarity with God and humanity in love.
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- 2023
48. Rumour and humour: narrative theology in the early fiction of Svetislav Basara
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Bogutovac, Dubravka and Melinščak Zlodi, Iva
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HUMANISTIČKE ZNANOSTI. Filologija. Slavistika ,HUMANISTIC SCIENCES. Philology. Slavic Studies ,Svetislav Basara ,Svetislav Basara, rumour, humour, narrative theology, early fiction ,humour ,rumour ,narrative theology ,early fiction - Abstract
Analiza korpusa proze Svetislava Basare iz 80-ih godina 20. st. pokazala je da Basarina zbirka eseja Na ivici iz 1987. godine ima u njemu poseban status: u njoj su sintetizirani estetički i idejni stavovi koje će ovaj autor koristiti i kasnije u svojoj prozi. Prije ove knjige eseja Basara je objavio zbirke priča Priče u nestajanju (1982) i Peking by night (1985) te romane Kinesko pismo (1985) i Napuklo ogledalo (1986), dok nakon ove knjige nastaje roman Fama o biciklistima (1988) i knjiga priča Fenomeni (1989). Može se reći da je zbirka eseja Na ivici knjiga u kojoj Basara promišlja strategije vlastitog pripovijedanja i osmišljava daljnji tok vlastitoga pripovjedačkoga govora. Knjiga eseja Na ivici mapira problematiku koja je čitljiva u čitavom korpusu i tumačim je kao temeljna obilježja Basarine poetike: - pripovijedanje u prvom licu - odbacivanje velikih priča i istraživanja mogućnosti odbacivanja priče uopće - fokus pripovjedača na probleme vezane uz ja – nevažnost okolnosti u kojima se ja nalazi; središnje pitanje: što je ja? - stupanje u polje religioznog - ja kao nepodnošljivo prisutno ništa - pripovijedanje u trećem licu prokazano kao laž / distanca od pisanja / malograđanski imperativ nemiješanja - fiktivno ja: mjesto u tekstu koje je mogući generator priče i značenja (praznina kao oblik potrage; nit) - rane proze kao arheologija ega - prepuštanje skrbi o ja religioznoj introspekciji - istinitost fikcije – u autoreferencijalnosti i metatekstualnosti (fikcija je istinita samo kad nije mimeza) - deklariranje fikcije kao fikcije: mimeza nestvarnosti pojavnog (npr. Fama o biciklistima) - pripovijedanje na granici eseja – eseji kao narativna proza - knjige eseja: rekapitulacija jednog razdoblja i utiranje puteva novim interesima
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- 2023
49. Soteriology, Eschatology and Cosmology: Resolving the Dissonance and Providing a Lens.
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RUSSO, MARIO A.
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METAPHYSICAL cosmology , *ESCHATOLOGY , *COMPARATIVE studies , *DOCTRINAL theology , *RELIGIOUS doctrines - Abstract
Recent studies of the relationship between science and religion yield a growing scholarly consensus over the compatibility of each category's truth claims, but there is continued dissonance in the relationship between the truth claims of cosmology and eschatology. On the one hand, cosmologists claim that the world ends in catastrophe; on the other hand, theologians working on eschatology claim that it is moving towards renewal and new creation. Recent scholarship responds to this dissonance by emphasising the bodily resurrection of Jesus. There is, however, another possible resolution to this dissonance that also provides an interpretive lens for understanding cosmology: using the Christian doctrine of soteriology as an analogy for eschatological claims. Through a comparative analysis of its own narrative with the narrative of cosmology, the Christian doctrine of soteriology lends a new perspective to the cosmological-eschatological dissonance while also providing a larger interpretive lens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
50. NARRATIVE THEOLOGY IN BEDE'S LIVES OF THE ABBOTS.
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BEQUETTE, JOHN
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NARRATIVE theology , *CHRISTIAN learning & scholarship - Published
- 2019
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