Sentences with phrase «in narrative theology»

I've read several things by N. T. Wright lately, just articles mainly, but I am interested in narrative theology and new testament theology.

The drama of cultural question and ecclesial counter question is also being played out in an interesting way in narrative theology.

Not exact matches

But something that has, I think, been neglected in the development of this narrative theology is the narrative dimension of individual Christian lives.

One of the chief themes of the narrative theology that came to prominence in the Anglo - American world in the late 1980s and early 1990s was the centrality of communal experience to the life of Christ's Church.

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.

It is fair to say that recent narrative theology has taken its characteristic forms precisely in order to counter this sort of thing.

This is somewhat surprising in light of the fact that one of the key texts prompting the renewal of narrative theology, the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue (1981), is seriously concerned with the narrative integrity of a given single life.

The recent ferment in approaches to biblical study and new forms of criticism such as canonical criticism and narrative theology give promise of offering new insights on this subject.

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.

In Out of Sorts, Sarah Bessey helps us grapple with core Christian issues using a mixture of beautiful storytelling and biblical teaching, a style well described as «narrative theology.»

Prime examples of this theology are found in the narratives of two dinner parties: one by the oaks of Mamre and the other in the village of Bethany.

A community shaped by the biblical narrative and steeped in classical theology can easily become a gentle anachronism, rather like the clubs that get together to hold costumed jousting tournaments.

I suggest that the whole biblical narrative, including Jesus, as well as all subsequent theology, is one vast story illustrating the simple fact that, in the end, we are all one, connected to each other and to our common Ground of Being.

He published the original version of The Identity of Jesus Christ: The Hermeneutical Bases of Dogmatic Theology in a Presbyterian adult education magazine called Crossroads in 1967, but it did not appear in book form until 1975 (Fortress), the year after he published The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative: A Study in Eighteenth - and Nineteenth - Century Hermeneutics (Yale University Press, 1974).

Narrative (or postliberal) theology: The major rival to postmodern theology in intellectual circles is the narrative theology movement represented by such figures as Hans Frei, George Lindbeck and (in a maverick version) Stanley Narrative (or postliberal) theology: The major rival to postmodern theology in intellectual circles is the narrative theology movement represented by such figures as Hans Frei, George Lindbeck and (in a maverick version) Stanley narrative theology movement represented by such figures as Hans Frei, George Lindbeck and (in a maverick version) Stanley Hauerwas.

(29) What Protestant liberalism, Bultmannianism and liberation theology all have in common is the supposition that the modem context determines how we should or how we can read the biblical narrative.

Moreover, the Christian narrative itself exists in a wide variety of versions, and it has never existed in such magnificent isolation as narrative theology seemingly supposes.

He boldly integrates this insight with his trinitarian theology by conceiving of the biblical narrative as «the final truth of God's own reality» in the mutual relations of God the Father, His incarnate Son, and the eschatological accomplishment of their communion by the Spirit.

A return to narrative vision via process theology will not give us an end to the «big story» which will, in a process vision, have to be without beginning and end.

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.

As the volume's editor, Michael Sherwin, observes, this book is «nothing less than a theology of conversion and Christian vocation expressed in a narrative that traces the effects of God's mercy upon the lives of a generation searching for meaning.»

It contains truth and fiction written in very lively narrative form reflecting both theology of the East Syrian church and the history of the origins of Christianity in India.

As such, the work consists of a discussion and, in some instances, a development of themes of narrative theology in biblical and ecclesial issues.

But by aligning themselves with those who use a combination of racial theory and customized theology to promote a false narrative for the sake of Palestinian nationalism, the Telos Group is complicit in an ideological process that is not only anti-Israel, but one that leads to some very dark consequences.

In Out of Sorts, Sarah Bessey — award - winning blogger and author of Jesus Feminist, which was hailed as «lucid, compelling, and beautifully written» (Frank Viola, author of God's Favorite Place on Earth)-- helps us grapple with core Christian issues using a mixture of beautiful storytelling and biblical teaching, a style well described as «narrative theology.»

If NT theology is understood as a response to certain key events of the life of Jesus in narrative form, a comparison of the different traditions (synoptics, John, Paul) suggest a development, if not different understanding.I view this as a «human construct».

Girard, however, fails to see the richness, multivalency, and ambiguity inherent in the language of sacrifice in Jewish and Christian thought; he fails to grasp, in particular, the conversion theology effects of the story of wrath into the story of mercy, or how it replaces the myth of sacrifice as economy with the narrative of sacrifice as a ceaseless outpouring of gift and restoration in an infinite motion exceeding every economy»

I call the made - up thing I do «narrative theology» because in almost all of my writing, I'm exploring the ways that I encounter God theologically in my life as it stands.

In this servant task, theology draws on several sources, placing them all under the norm of God's narrative - shaped Word in scripturIn this servant task, theology draws on several sources, placing them all under the norm of God's narrative - shaped Word in scripturin scripture.

The essence of both Christianity and theology, then, is not propositional truths enshrined in doctrines but a narrative - shaped experience.

A theology of testimony which is not just another name for the theology of the confession of faith is only possible if a certain narrative kernel is preserved in strict union with the confession of faith.

«Narrative theology» and ethicists are giving attention to the ways in which tradition informs our understanding of what we believe to be good.

then, that the theology of the epistles and the narrative of the gospels have a motive in common.

I think there has been a minority report in the West — St. Patrick, St. Francis, Duns Scotus, the Anabaptists, liberation theology, black theology, feminist theology, eco-theology, postcolonial theology - and they're providing alternatives to the dominant narrative that I think is inherently dangerous.

In an early negative judgment on Frei, Carl F. H. Henry summarized the problem: Narrative theology drives a wedge between biblical narrative (which it plays up) and historical factuality (which it plaNarrative theology drives a wedge between biblical narrative (which it plays up) and historical factuality (which it planarrative (which it plays up) and historical factuality (which it plays down).

As for the postliberal claim to eschew the experiential subjectivism of liberal theology, Henry charged that in elevating narrative over factuality, narrative theology becomes unable to distinguish truth from error or fact from fiction.

For some time this narrative aspect of cosmology has been a dominant theme in process theology.

The Biblical Theology Movement had sought to retrieve, in stripped - down form, a dimension of the old cohesion between natural world and biblical world by positing points of contact between the crafted narrative and the real world of cause and effect: the Mighty Acts of God.

I have studied many other theologies and the theology of the cross that Luther took directly from Paul pretty much (in my mind) makes thebest sense of the entire biblical narrative.

In its avoidance of narratives of sharp discontinuity, the Reformed catholic program is similar to a movement in recent Catholic theology that goes by the name of «Ressourcement Thomism,» whose most prominent exponents are Reinhard Hütter, Matthew Levering, and Thomas Joseph WhitIn its avoidance of narratives of sharp discontinuity, the Reformed catholic program is similar to a movement in recent Catholic theology that goes by the name of «Ressourcement Thomism,» whose most prominent exponents are Reinhard Hütter, Matthew Levering, and Thomas Joseph Whitin recent Catholic theology that goes by the name of «Ressourcement Thomism,» whose most prominent exponents are Reinhard Hütter, Matthew Levering, and Thomas Joseph White.

«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.»

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.

This book has become a standard work in the growing area of narrative theology.

Good biblical theology takes into account the various voices of scripture (and the church) in an attempt to understand the broader trajectory of the biblical narrative.

Narrative theology and narrative preaching are opening new vistas in theological eNarrative theology and narrative preaching are opening new vistas in theological enarrative preaching are opening new vistas in theological education.