Congregation: Stories and Structures

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Fortress Press - 219 Seiten
In a unique, full-scale study of congregational life, Hopewell shows that it is narrative-the oral tradition-that knits a congregation together.

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The Thick Gathering
3
Househunting
19
Parish Story
40
The Struggle for Setting
55
Parish Setting
67
Exploring World View
87
Parish Genius
103
Three Congregations
119
The Actions of Plot
153
Christ and Eros
164
Wiltshires World Story
178
Epilogue The Ministry and Mission of Congregational Story
193
World View Test 1982
203
Works Frequently Cited
212
Index
213
Urheberrecht

Storytelling
140

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Seite 52 - Anagogically, then, the symbol is a monad, all symbols being united in a single infinite and eternal verbal symbol which is, as dianoia, the Logos, and, as mythos, total creative act.
Seite 56 - the strange opacity of events, the dumb senselessness of intense or inexorable pain, and the enigmatic unaccountability of gross iniquity all raise the uncomfortable suspicion that perhaps the world, and hence man's life in the world, has no genuine order at all - no empirical regularity, no emotional form, no moral...
Seite 48 - ... we dream in narrative, daydream in narrative, remember, anticipate, hope, despair, believe, doubt, plan, revise, criticize, construct, gossip, learn, hate, and love by narrative. In order really to live, we make up stories about ourselves and others, about the personal as well as the social past and future, (in Meek, 1978, p.
Seite 64 - The Miracles of the Church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
Seite 52 - Mathematics appears to be a kind of informing or constructive principle in the natural sciences: it continually gives shape and coherence to them without being itself involved in any kind of external proof or evidence. One wonders whether, in...
Seite 59 - If superior in degree to other men and to his environment, the hero is the typical hero of romance, whose actions are marvellous but who is himself identified as a human being. The hero of romance moves in a world in which the ordinary laws of nature are slightly suspended...
Seite 62 - Miracle is simply the religious name for event. Every event, even the most natural and usual, becomes a miracle, as soon as the religious view of it can be the dominant.
Seite 65 - Hayden White, Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973...

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