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


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

Hardback by Loughlin, Gerard (Professor of Theology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

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

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ISBN:
9780521432856
Publication Date:
18 Jan 1996
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Pages:
284 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 24 - 29 May 2024
Telling God's Story: Bible, Church and Narrative Theology

Description

This book presents narrative theology as radically orthodox. It is orthodox because it is in the tradition of all those who maintain the priority of the story of Jesus, as it is sacramentally performed in the Church; and radical because it eschews all modern attempts to found Christian faith on some other story, such as that of reason, critical history or human consciousness. Acknowledging the indeterminacy and textuality of human existence, Telling God's Story presents the Christian life as a truly postmodern venture: the groundless enactment of God's 'future now'. In the epilogue this book focuses on the Eucharist as the sacramental site in which the story and body of Christ consumes and is consumed. Through this bodily telling and consumption the Church is enabled to receive again God's gift of return and to be the telling of God's story, once more.

Contents

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.

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