Faith and narrative / edited by Keith E. Yandell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yandell, Keith E. (Keith Edward), 1938- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Storytelling--Religious aspects.

Storytelling.

Knowledge, Theory of (Religion).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From novel to anecdote, literary narratives engage and entertain us. Recently, the importance of narrative to ethics and religion has become a pervasive theme, and the essays collected here also focus on narrative's contribution to knowledge.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1 ""They Stooped to Conquer"": Cultural Vitality and the Narrative Impulse; 2 Gnosis, Narrative, and the Occasion of Repentance; 3 The Scandal of Revelation; 4 Second-Person Accounts and the Problem of Evil; 5 Social Transformation as Return of Story Tradition; 6 Anecdote as the Essence of Historical Understanding; 7 Hagiography and Hindu Historical Consciousness; 8 Narrative and Theological Aspects of Freudian and Jungian Psychology; 9 Words, Deeds, and Words about Deeds; 10 Narrative Theology from an Evangelical Perspective; 11 Living within a Text

12 The Limits of Narrative Theology13 Narrative Ethics and Normative Objectivity; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773910-5

1-280-47273-1

0-19-535128-2

1-4237-5758-0

OCLC:

191924441