God is not a story : realism revisited / Francesca Aran Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphy, Francesca Aran.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narrative theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press Oxford, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A challenging critique of narrative theologies, including the works of George Lindbeck, Robert Jenson, and Herbert McCabe. Francesca Aran Murphy argues that the use of the concept of story or narrative in theology is circular and self-referential, and that the widespread notion that the role of the theologian is to 'tell God's story' has not helped theology to advance the reality of its doctrines. Murphy contends that the scriptural revelation on which Christian theology depends isnot a story or a plot but a dramatic encounter between mysterious, free, and unpredictable persons. She offers her

Contents:

Introduction : spectacle

God is not a story

Two types of narrative theology : story Barthianism and grammatical Thomism

What is narrative theology?

Some hints at an historical context for narrative theology

Robert Jenson : story Thomism

Why the movie parallel?

The church as anonymous celebrity

Introduction : who makes the church?

Non-foundationalism

The hermeneutics of story Barthianism

The idea of resurrection as foundational

The movie actor

The movie and its audience

Identity equated to story

The Gospels are not codes

If the church is everything, everything is the church

Love makes the church

Naming God

Method and content

The 'why proof' of God's existence

Robert Jenson gets to the heart of grammatical Thomism

The why-proof as a contingency cliff-hanger

Naming God into existence in story-Barthian theology : hermeneutics

'God' as one character amongst others

On not raising the game

From theodicy to melodrama

An unresolved problem of evil makes life melodramatic

First steps in characterizing melodrama

'It is a rare melodrama that does not have a villain'

God as villain in narrative readings of the Bible

Melodrama : the aftermath of tragedy and of comedy

The logical necessity of evil : story Thomism

The unknowability of God as a methodological principle

A Jansenist illustration of analogy

A close run in with death

Liberty, equality, fraternity : Jacques Louis David

Marat transignified

The 'why' question revisited : the ontological distinction

Resurrection as poetic justice

The natural desire for God : 'religation'

An argument and the analogy of natality

Cinematizing the trinity

Introduction : modalism, tritheism, and psychologism

What you see is what you get : Herbert McCabe

Three strategies in trinitarian theology

Trinitarian monotheism versus descriptive trinitarianism

Why Jenson is a cinematic modalist

God in the eye of the camera

The cartoon trinity : digitalized relationships

An odd definition of modalism in story Barthianism and narrative Thomism

Monotheistic trinitarian theology

Conclusion : a God who is love

Futurity

Story Thomism as apocalypticism

A God who is love

Truth and personality

Dare we hope that God exists?

From analogy to theo-drama

The eucharistic church

Melodrama or theo-drama

Predestination and eschatology : 'time...must be lived.'

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-345) and indexes.

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ISBN:

0-19-160768-1

9786611149840

0-19-152746-7

1-4356-2181-6

1-281-14984-5

OCLC:

191049973