Faith and narrative [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Keith E. Yandell

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Disciplina: 121/.68
• Soggetto topico: Storytelling - Religious aspects; Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
• Altri autori: YandellKeith E. <1938->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• 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: The importance of narrative to ethics and religion is a pervasive theme in several scholarly disciplines. In the essays presented here, distinguished scholars address a range of issues associated with this theme, focussing especially on questions concerning narrative's contribution to knowledge.
• Titolo autorizzato: Faith and narrative
• ISBN: 0-19-773910-5; 1-280-47273-1; 0-19-535128-2; 1-4237-5758-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784712503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II