Sentences with phrase «narrative theology»

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

That is the challenge facing anyone who would take narrative theology to the next level of critical and prophetic power.

The book carries with it both the strengths and the flaws of contemporary narrative theology.

For example, there has been much talk of narrative theology.

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

The top ten posts are below and it's a mish - mash of editorializing and story - telling and narrative theology across a whole rash...

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

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.

They include as well narrative theology's rejection of secular philosophical norms as criteria for religious truth and of the extremes of rationalist, critical exegesis.

Narrative theology came into vogue, followed by narrative preaching — understood variously as preaching about narratives, preaching with narratives and giving sermons narrative form.

Unfortunately narrative theology has been frequently presented as a sense of relief at being delivered from Enlightenment modes of historicity, without attention to the dynamic, positive act of reconstitution.

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 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.

Does this mean that Frei - style narrative theology simply waves off the question of historical factuality?

All are included by narrative theology under and within the rubric of «story» or «drama.»

The danger in narrative theology is, again, that the object of theology will be drastically reduced — this time to an interpretive framework centered on the narratively rendered character «God» and the way it functions to order our lives and our visions of the world.

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

We may therefore find ourselves tempted to neglect or even abandon the practice of testimony, absorbing all individual differences of vocation and experience into the one great story of the Church — and to some degree that is just what recent narrative theology has done.

The top ten posts are below and it's a mish - mash of editorializing and story - telling and narrative theology across a whole rash of topics.

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.

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

In short, what is currently needed, it seems to me, is a narrative theology that draws on the great resources provided by the thinkers I have mentioned — MacIntyre, Newbigin, Hauerwas, and so on — but which also understands what Augustine and the Puritans understood: the importance of thinking narratively about individual 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.

This essay is adapted from his book Life Genres: The Personal Dimension of Narrative Theology (forthcoming from Eerdmans).

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.

I feel your narrative theology is too esoteric and is rebuffed by Old fashioned «thus saith the Lord» also I could use 98 % of what you wrote to support my position!

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.»

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.

Both psychohistory and narrative theology have evoked a rebirth of what our grandparents called «testimony» — the stories of personal pilgrimage.

He was sometimes credited with founding a «school» called «narrative theology,» but he always doubted that there was such a thing — and would be against it if there were.

Those infatuated with stories may wake up one Sunday to find themselves in the middle of Willimon's sermonic hodgepodge, while critics of narrative theology may inadvertently throw out the inductive baby with the narrative bath.

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.»

McFague launches a cogent argument for a narrative theology tied to Jesus» parables, the rich texture of metaphor and a feminist perspective.

Add to that a variety of liberation theologies plus transcendental Thomists, neoCalvinists, confessional Lutherans, Anglo - Catholics, process and pluralist theologians, the unrepentant neo-orthodox and neo-liberal, the Eastern Orthodox, three kinds of narrative theology and more.

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

Narrative theology has no substantive doctrine of biblical inspiration, no objective theory of biblical authority, no objective criterion for establishing religious truth, and only a partial account of scriptural unity.

Best Analysis: Roger Olson with «Narrative Theology» «According to narrative theology, the Bible contains many kinds of statements — commands, propositions, expressions of praise, prayers, poetry, prophecies, parables, etc..

The Nature of Doctrine remains a useful pedagogical text, but «narrative theology» or «postliberal theology» is surely gone.

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.