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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955249303321

Titolo

Faith and narrative / / edited by Keith E. Yandell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-773910-5

1-280-47273-1

0-19-535128-2

1-4237-5758-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

121/.68

Soggetti

Storytelling - Religious aspects

Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1 ""They Stooped to Conquer"": Cultural Vitality and the Narrative Impulse; 2 Gnosis, Narrative, and the Occasion of Repentance; 3 The Scandal of Revelation; 4 Second-Person Accounts and the Problem of Evil; 5 Social Transformation as Return of Story Tradition; 6 Anecdote as the Essence of Historical Understanding; 7 Hagiography and Hindu Historical Consciousness; 8 Narrative and Theological Aspects of Freudian and Jungian Psychology; 9 Words, Deeds, and Words about Deeds; 10 Narrative Theology from an Evangelical Perspective; 11 Living within a Text

12 The Limits of Narrative Theology13 Narrative Ethics and Normative Objectivity; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

From novel to anecdote, literary narratives engage and entertain us. Recently, the importance of narrative to ethics and religion has become a pervasive theme, and the essays collected here also focus on narrative's contribution to knowledge.