RT Book T1 The Gift of Story: Narrating Hope in a Postmodern World A1 Griesinger, Emily A2 Eaton, Mark LA English PP Waco PB Baylor University Press YR 2006 UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/722699581 AB The Gift of Story brings contemporary literature and film into conversation with the grand Christian narrative. This book examines the specific connections between contemporary cultural meta-narratives (the stories humans typically tell about themselves) and the ideas of hope found in Christianity. Despite postmodernism's skepticism about narrative, the dialogue with contemporary fiction, drama, music and film demonstrates that the Christian story can engender and sustain hope NO Description based upon print version of record CN PN771 .G54 2006eb SN 9781932792478 K1 Electronic books