Telling God's story: Bible, church, and narrative theology
This book presents narrative theology as radically orthodox. It is orthodox because it is in the tradition of all those who maintain the priority of the story of Jesus, as it is sacramentally performed in the Church; and radical because it eschews all modern attempts to found Christian faith on some...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
1996.
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| In: | Year: 1996 |
| Reviews: | BOOK REVIEWS (1998) (Murray, Paul D., 1964 -)
REVIEWS (1997) (Kerr, Fergus, 1931 -) Telling God's Story: Bible, Church and Narrative Theology. Gerard Loughlin (1998) (Placher, William C., 1948 - 2008) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Narrative theology
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| Further subjects: | B
Bible ; Use
B Frei, Hans W B Church B Storytelling ; Religious aspects ; Christianity B Lindbeck, George A B Narrative Theology B Bible B Bible Use B Storytelling Religious aspects Christianity B Lord's Supper |
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Print version: 9780521432856 |
| Summary: | This book presents narrative theology as radically orthodox. It is orthodox because it is in the tradition of all those who maintain the priority of the story of Jesus, as it is sacramentally performed in the Church; and radical because it eschews all modern attempts to found Christian faith on some other story, such as that of reason, critical history or human consciousness. Acknowledging the indeterminacy and textuality of human existence, Telling God's Story presents the Christian life as a truly postmodern venture: the groundless enactment of God's 'future now'. In the epilogue this book focuses on the Eucharist as the sacramental site in which the story and body of Christ consumes and is consumed. Through this bodily telling and consumption the Church is enabled to receive again God's gift of return and to be the telling of God's story, once more. Preface -- Preface to the paperback edition -- Prologue: at the end of the book: 1. Future now -- Part I. Consuming Text: 2. Around Christ -- 3. Character/circumstance/community -- Part II. Reading and Writing: 4. Making it plain -- 5. True stories -- Part III. Linkages: 6. The event of God -- 7. Only love -- Epilogue: in the middle of the story -- 8. Eating the word -- Bibliograph -- Index |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 051152014X |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511520143 |