Her work disrupts the coherence
of narrative experience, opening up spaces of humor, absurdity, and poetry while destabilizing relationships between supposedly fixed forms.
Spencer feels that, from a creative standpoint, we need new types
of narrative experience — but from a business standpoint, it's getting harder and riskier to commit to those games.
These things all work together to create a different kind
of narrative experience, one with its own pacing, characters, plot, and dialogue, separate from the explicit story.
Black Crown is a still - cryptic «infectious new kind
of narrative experience,» whose own website states that an author will be revealed some time next month.
Not exact matches
«There is the idea
of having a
narrative and concept and a level
of wit built into the
experience of the design,» says Sperduti.
But the bigger notion
of having an
experience built on a
narrative does not.
By being a part
of an exciting live
experience, they're able to reshape the
narrative around their own brand.
With millennials consuming more and more
of their media through mobile devices and social platforms, executives at Indigenous Media bet that Snapchat users would warm quickly to the idea
of following a
narrative story posted in regular installments to social media, as opposed to the traditional theatrical
experience.
Trudeau added that it's a mistake to «lock someone into a representative
narrative,» and that leadership should aim to «have people share a full range
of experiences» from diverse populations if they want to open their capacity to be truly creative.
I think it's a very dangerous mistake to dispense with our present concerns by ignoring the
narrative of our stress - testing response to the credit crisis, and concluding that our
experience over this half - cycle has been a mechanical reflection
of our pre-2009 methods, our present methods, or some perma - bearish disposition on my part.
All
of these issues will have some relation to the developing
narrative that we are
experiencing in the markets:
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.
the negation
of ideology, the political secularization
of the doctrine
of original sin, the cautious sentiment tempered by prudence, the product
of organic, local human organization observing and reforming its customs, the distaste for a priori principle disassociated from historical
experience, the partaking
of the mysteries
of free will, divine guidance, and human agency by existing in but not
of the confusions
of modern society, no framework
of action, no tenet, no theory, and no article
of faith, a distrust
of the systems and processes
of the idol
of self and
of the lust for power and status, scorn to all approaches
of ideology and meta -
narrative.
It also places it in continuity with the
experiences of the early church, and within the continuing
narrative of the development
of Christian thought — as people have struggled to make sense
of and articulate their lived
experience of God — which produced the great ecumenical creeds (with their clear progression
of understanding about God, Christ and the Holy Spirit)- and which continues on today.
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.
Plus, can't you see how people might even suspect that person was some kind
of an official plant, sent there to disrupt the
narrative, infuse insecurity, doubt, and fear in the victims, maybe even arouse sympathy for the rapists, and somehow dismiss their
experience?
Her newest book, In Bloom: Trading Restless Insecurity for Abiding Confidence, will help you rewrite the
narrative of insecurity and inadequacy that you have
experienced, exchanging it for abiding confidence in the One who holds it all together.
We all love a good story because
of the basic
narrative quality
of human
experience 22a.
Jaded by
experience and suspicious
of narrative, we can not credit the secular prophecies
of the past two centuries, which divined the end
of history in a worker's state or the global triumph
of democratic capitalism.
Did he remember something that a survivor
of guadalcanal personally
experiences and never told anyone and the boy happened to detail this from his first person
narrative?
Probably in these
narratives we have reminiscences
of an
experience that would be no less real if the form in which it was told was symbolic.
The elaborate
narratives of Matthew and Luke may be the result
of legendary or literary development; but that Jesus could speak
of his own inner
experiences in figurative or perhaps visionary language is shown later by his exclamation when the disciples reported their success in casting out demons (Lk 10:18): «I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.»
More obviously than in other parts
of the Synoptic Gospels there is much material which is evidently a casting back, in the form
of a
narrative about Jesus,
of the thought and
experience of the Church in later years, and
of its controversies with opponents.
One can certainly detect, for instance, a growing skepticism toward «modernity» in the form
of master
narratives and instrumental reason, possibly because Latin America has so often had a painful
experience of these
narratives and the exercise
of such reason —
experiencing them from the «reverse side
of history,» to use Gutiérrez's apt phrase.
A Christian theology that respects the meaning
of the biblical
narratives must begin simply by retelling those stories, without any systematic effort at apologetics, without any determined effort to begin with questions arising from our
experience.
But to try to develop some general theory
of the
narrative shape
of human
experience as a foundation for Christian theology seemed to him «first to put the cart before the horse and then cut the lines and pretend the vehicle is self - propelled.»
The
narrative of another person's life
experience, especially when it is told as dramatically as Augustine's, holds perennial and intrinsic interest and pleasure for readers or hearers.
David Hall, a longtime acquaintance
of Carson who said he watched the two work together, claims that Andrews supplied rough sketches from her
experiences in Beverly Hills, and Carson wove them into a fictional
narrative describing her exotic adventures with various shamans based on his own knowledge
of Native American culture.
Numbers and Deuteronomy complete the
narrative, describing the
experiences and lessons
of the people as they leave Sinai and finally arrive at the edge
of the Promised Land.
Though we virtually have to use
narrative language, the language
of sequential time, to analyze what we mean by an occasion, we must recognize that the basic unit
of experience is not a story which can be analyzed into separate sub-events, but a solid unit in its own right, a droplet
of time which does not admit further dissection into a story line.
In fact,
experience is inchoate even to the subject until it is captured first at the level
of mythic expression, much
of which is nonverbal, then in mythologies which cast myth into the form
of narrative, then in fully conceptualized systems.
We have not an individual identity, but fragments
of experience; not the
narrative of a life that is in some sense a whole, but a decentered flow
of experience.
Frank recognizes the inspiration
of Arthur Kleinman, author
of The Illness
Narratives, who provides an epigraph for the book: «It is possible to talk with patients, even those who are most distressed, about the actual
experience of illness....
Narratives are filled with a variety
of experiences that need to be interpreted; this is true
of Bible stories as well as personal testimonies.
The essence
of both Christianity and theology, then, is not propositional truths enshrined in doctrines but a
narrative - shaped
experience.
On one hand, «life story» versions
of theology point to the
narrative character
of human
experience and thereby connect theology to the drama
of suffering and hope.
Many scholars have consequently interpreted it as a resurrection
narrative which has been read back into the earthly life
of Jesus.34 Whether it stems from an actual
experience of the disciples, or whether it is a symbolic account
of the much more complex spiritual
experience of the disciples after the crucifixion, it is very difficult to determine.
Accepting the notion that biblical
narratives are the product
of many layers
of oral tradition, they see scripture as paradigmatic
of humanity's interpretation
of the
experience (there is no such thing as uninterpreted
experience!)
But in Niebuhr's view, the
narratives of scripture not only render characters and circumstances, they also refer to
experienced realities.
Narrative ministry, so to speak, finds no more receptive audience than a group
of young people, particularly a group
of high - powered, pressured children and adolescents who have not frequently
experienced the joy and luxury
of having stories told to them.
And television has become our prime story - teller, the creator
of the images and
narratives which, taken altogether, provide us with a worldview which seriously competes with the real world
of direct
experience.
And so adequate a transcript
of the event itself is this «remembering» community that the Resurrection
of Jesus is not a datum
of faith but a postulate
of the community's
experience, and the apostolic
narratives of resurrection are superfluous, from the point
of men
of faith.
Pentecostals who begin with Acts 1:8 often conclude their testimony by inviting their audiences to
experience for themselves the Spirit's presence and activity as recorded throughout the Acts
narrative, and to continue to expand the early Christian story into — as it were — an additional chapter
of the book
of Acts.
It is analogous to the
experience of Lazarus, the Beloved Disciple in the
narrative world
of the Fourth Gospel.
Whether it be Wieman's general appropriation
of James's «knowledge by acquaintance» in Religious
Experience and Scientific Method, Meland's «appreciative awareness,» or Loomer's more narrative forms of gathering evidence, each purports merely to describe, but then evinces that the description is driven by rather specific personal and / or contextual definitions of what counts as religious e
Experience and Scientific Method, Meland's «appreciative awareness,» or Loomer's more
narrative forms
of gathering evidence, each purports merely to describe, but then evinces that the description is driven by rather specific personal and / or contextual definitions
of what counts as religious
experienceexperience.
It is through the re-reading and reappropriation
of texts from the early period
of the formation and quest for identity
of the church that one can reclaim, question, and integrate the
experiences of women, recognising that - then as now - the «universalizing effect
of the Christian master
narrative... concealed the subaltern status
of many
of its characters.»
As in the
narratives of Jesus» baptism (Mk 1:10 - 11 and parallels), his words here may refer to a mystical
experience, or they may express symbolically his certainty
of Satan's downfall.
This type
of experience, suggested not only in Paul but in some
of the Gospel
narratives, (E.g., Matthew 28:16 - 17; Mark 16:9 - 12) may have been the beginning
of the conviction that Jesus was not dead but alive, and the more physical representations
of the disentombment may have been an aftermath, caused by the insistent belief
of the Jewish - Christian mind that resurrection was
of necessity involved in life after death.
Although Metz views the categories
of narrative and memory as essential for Christian solidarity with the world, his categories refer primarily to the collective
experience of the church universal expressed in theological terms (memory
of the dead, apocalyptic hope, etc.).
To the degree that members
of oldline Protestant denominations participate in this reinstitutionalization
of society and in the consequent erosion
of deep values, their loyalties will be dispersed over a number
of different social worlds, they will exist without what JeanFrancois Lyotard has termed a societal «master
narrative,» and they will surely
experience lukewarmness with respect to traditional faith.