| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 271 pages) |
| Contents |
"They stooped to conquer" : cultural vitality and the narrative impulse / Lamin Sanneh -- Gnosis, narrative, and the occasion of repentance / David L. Jeffrey -- The scandal of revelation / George Steiner -- Second-person accounts and the problem of evil / Eleonore Stump -- Social transformation as return of story tradition / James Billington -- Anecdote as the essence of historical understanding / Robert E. Frykenberg -- Hagiography and Hindu historical consciousness / John B. Carman -- Narrative and theological aspects of Freudian and Jungian psychology / Paul Vitz -- Words, deeds, and words about deeds / Jon N. Moline -- Narrative theology from an evangelical perspective / Gabriel Fackre -- Living within a text / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- The limits of narrative theology / Paul Griffiths -- Narrative ethics and normative objectivity / Keith E. Yandell |
| Summary |
From epic to limerick, novel to anecdote, literary narratives engage and entertain us. From autobiography and biography to accounts of familial generations, narratives define communities. Myths and histories loom large in religious traditions as well. Recently, the importance of narrative to ethics and religion has become a pervasive theme in several scholarly disciplines. In the essays presented here, a distinguished roster of scholars addresses a range of issues associated with this theme, focussing especially on questions concerning narrative's contribution to knowledge |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Storytelling -- Religious aspects.
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Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
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Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
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Storytelling -- Religious aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Yandell, Keith E., 1938-
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| ISBN |
1423757580 |
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9781423757580 |
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9780195131451 |
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0195131452 |
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1280472731 |
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9781280472732 |
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0195351282 |
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9780195351286 |
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