Revelation and Story: Narrative Theology and the Centrality of Story

ISBN-13: 9780754612902 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 216 str.

Gerhard Sauter;John Barton;Stanley Hauerwas

Opis

From the work of Hegel and Schelling to the dialectical theology of Barth, Bultmann and Gogarten, Revelation has developed a long, rich tradition of diverse thought, as well as many misunderstandings. Meaning, first and foremost, God's encounter with those to whom God wishes to communicate God's own self, Revelation seeks to be recounted and communicated to others. As a theological expression, Revelation aims to direct oour attention to the modes and areas in which we have a basis for expecting encounter with God - through stories, nature, the world as creation. From a rediscovered emphasis on story, narrative theology has emerged - a concept the English-speaking world has welcomed for its neutrality between history and imaginative fiction and stress on narrative rather than doctrinal dimension of biblical text.

Recenzje

’These authors have tried to think afresh, and think independently. They grapple with the question of how to take scripture seriously in an age when we cannot take it for granted. They do a good job.’ Timothy Gorringe, Church Times 'Like a metaphor, these essays are surprising, deconstructive, creative, and altogether transformative of the ways the connection between theology and philosophy is conceptualized... it is clear that these essays present a creative theological and philosophical dialogue.' Reviews in Religion and Theology '... this collection of nine papers is a thought provoking discussion of a variety of theological and hermeneutical concerns about revelation.' Themelios '... the collective scholarship (of this volume) is at the forefront of biblical and theological research... an exciting if challenging read... what it has to yield is deep and rich - as with revelation itself, both manifest and hidden... What a delight it all is! This book must be read and reread!' International Journal of Systematic Theology

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; ’Scriptural faithfulness’ is not a ’Scripture principle’, Gerhard Sauter; Story and possibility: Reflections on the last scenes of the fourth gospel and Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Paul S. Fiddes; Disclosing human possibilities: Revelation and Biblical stories, John Barton; Reading the Bible theologically, Ernstpeter Maurer; Revelation as Gestalt, Rainer Fischer; Allegoria: Reading as a spiritual exercise, Graham Ward; ’Revelation’ and ’Story’ in Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic, Michael Wolter; Does the gospel story demand and discourage talk of revelation?, Robert Morgan; The productive vagueness of an untranslatable relationship, Caroline Schröder; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Gerhard Sauter, John Barton