Narrative Theology and Moral Theology: The Infinite Horizon

ISBN-13: 9780754656807 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 242 str.

Alexander Lucie-Smith

Opis

Moral thinking finds itself stranded between the particular and the universal. This work on narrative aims to undo the perceived damage done by the Enlightenment by returning to narrative and abandoning the illusion of a disembodied reason that claims to be able give a coherent explanation for everything.

Recenzje

’Carefully and charitably written, mercifully free from the sort of polemicising and posturing that characterises some of the writers he discusses, Lucie-Smith's book deserves to be widely read, and its central thesis developed. His lucid style would be accessible to general readers as well as more specialised academics, and would reward the study of those who, week by week, are entrusted with the task of expounding the Gospel narrative,and opening up the infinite horizon to which they point.’ Church Times ’Alexander Lucie-Smith [...] offers a very intelligent, scholarly argument, incorporating narrative theology into a more Catholic context. Moreover, in a world in which cross-cultural dialogue and ethics are all the more important, he aims to keep narratives from being trapped in their own local traditions... In sum, Lucie-Smith has given the field of theological ethics a very significant contribution.’ The Tablet

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Narrative Theology as a New Approach to Theology; Chapter 2 Alasdair MacIntyre; Chapter 3 Stanley Hauerwas; Chapter 4 H.T. Engelhardt; Chapter 5 The Rawlsian Alternative; Chapter 6 Beyond Rawls; Chapter 7 The Augustinian Approach; Chapter 8 Three Models of Narrative Theology; Chapter 9 A Narrative Moral Theology in Practice;

O autorze

Alexander Lucie-Smith is the Head of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Tangaza College, Nairobi, Kenya, a constituent college of the Catholic University of East Africa, where he teaches fundamental moral theology. He is an ordained Catholic priest and a member of the Institute of Charity. He holds an MA from Oxford in English Literature, and a Licence in moral theology from the Gregorian University, Rome. Apart from this he is a published novelist, a regular book reviewer for The Tablet and a columnist for the Catholic Herald, under the pseudonym David McLaurin.