Why Narrative? : Readings in Narrative Theology /
edited by Stanley Hauerwas and L. Gregory Jones
- Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, 1989
- viii, 367 p. ; 23 cm.
Why narrative / Stanley Hauerwas and L. Gregory Jones -- The story of our life / H. Richard Niebuhr -- Apologetics, criticism, and the loss of narrative interpretation / Hans Frei -- The narrative quality of experience / Stephen Crites -- The virtues, the unity of a human life, and the concept of a tradition / Alasdair MacIntyre -- Ideology, metaphor, and analogy / Nicholas Lash -- Epistemological crises, dramatic narrative, and the philosophy of science / Alasdair MacIntyre -- From system to story : an alternative pattern for rationality in ethics / Stanley Hauerwas and David Burrell -- System, story, performance : a proposal about the role of narrative in Christian systematic theology / David F. Ford -- Narrative emotions : Beckett's genealogy of love / Martha Nussbaum -- A short apology of narrative / Johann Baptist Metz -- The narrative structure of soteriology / Michael Root -- Theological investments in story : some comments on recent developments and some proposals / Julian Hartt -- A respectful reply to the assertorical theologian / Stephen Crites -- Why the truth demands truthfulness : an imperious engagement with Hartt / Stanley Hauerwas -- Reply to Crites and Hauerwas / Julian Hartt -- The promising God : the Gospel as narrated promise / Ronald Thiemann -- God, action, and narrative : which narrative? which action? which God? / Michael Goldberg.