Telling God's Story: Bible, Church and Narrative Theology

ISBN-13: 9780521665155 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 284 str.

Gerard Loughlin

Opis

Narrative theology emphasizes the priority of the story of Jesus Christ because the story precedes categorizing or conceptualizing. An exercise in postmodern narrative theology, this book shows how the distinction between narrative and story enables one to read the Bible as a single story that finds its focus in Christ. Loughlin sees the Church as the telling and continuation of Christ's story, with the Bible and the community as the context in which Christ makes himself known and available for faith.

Recenzje

'... an attractive presentation of the church in the postmodern world as a community which embodies and performs the story of Jesus, particularly in the eucharist, 'a narrative that enfolds the participants within the biblical story …'. David Horrell, Expository Times

Spis treści

Preface; Preface to the paperback edition; Prologue: at the end of the book: 1. Future now; Part I. Consuming Text: 2. Around Christ; 3. Character/circumstance/community; Part II. Reading and Writing: 4. Making it plain; 5. True stories; Part III. Linkages: 6. The event of God; 7. Only love; Epilogue: in the middle of the story; 8. Eating the word; Bibliography; Index.