Sentences with phrase «about narrative theology»

But something about narrative theology (and narrative in other disciplines as well) that has inhibited its lure is how its proponents decide which narrative is preferable even within the larger whole they generally agree upon — biblical narrative.

Of books about narrative theology, one is increasingly tempted to declare, Satis!

Not exact matches

However, I've also seen far too many people attempt to ground their identity in doubt - free theology making it all too easy for comedians such as Bill Maher, George Carlin or Ricky Gervais to come along and thoroughly dismantle flimsy beliefs about the creation narrative, the historical Jesus or how seemingly misogynistic and oppressive the Bible sounds.

But unlike earlier waves of feminist theology, in which appeals to women's experience were a wakeup call about women's marginalization, today feminist theologians turn to women's narratives as a source of embodied knowledge.

I call this alchemy «narrative theology» because I'm usually just wanting to write what I think and experience about God and the best way I know how to do that is through story - telling.

Much of what Metz says about memory and narrative resonates with what process theology has learned from H. Richard Niebuhr's classic work on The Meaning of Revelation.15 There is, however, a certain difference.

I do not argue that the reflexes of abstraction and generalization have no function at all, but we need to be more honest about their derivative quality and about the normalness of narrative or hortatory genres as good theology.

Some attention to the story form in apocalyptic can show us some of the reasons why the narrative form is in trouble, while process theology has some fundamentally useful hints about how we may re-imagine the story, or grasp a new narrative vision of the world, which will enable us to set the new into a meaningful framework and respond to it with hope.

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«In Christian theology, such phrases regularly act as «portable stories» — that is, ways of packing up longer narratives about God, Jesus, the church and the world, folding them away into convenient suitcases, and then carrying them about with us.»

Narrative theology can provide relief from these questions by limiting the intellectual and social context within which theologians and pastors can think about what they are saying and doing.