Faith and NarrativeKeith E. Yandell Oxford University Press, 09.08.2001 - 288 Seiten From epic to limerick, novel to anecdote, literary narratives engage and entertain us. From autobiography and biography to accounts of familial generations, narratives define communities. Myths and histories loom large in religious traditions as well. Recently, the importance of narrative to ethics and religion has become a pervasive theme in several scholarly disciplines. In the essays presented here, a distinguished roster of scholars addresses a range of issues associated with this theme, focusing especially on questions concerning narrative's contribution to knowledge. |
Inhalt
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The Place of Narrative | 105 |
The Promise of Narrative | 153 |
The Problems of Narrative | 215 |
Index | 261 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action African Anchor Bible anecdote argue Aristotle believe biblical biblical narrative biblical stories Book of Job called Christ Christian church claims cock compatibilism context course critical cultural death disposition divine speeches doctrine ethics evangelical evangelical narrative example explanation faith first-person Frei Freud give gnostic God's Golden Stool hagiography hermeneutic human Ibid important interpretation Jesus Jung kind language linguistic literary lives logical Lord meaning metaphysical mission missionary moral mother tongue narra narrative discourse narrative theology narrativist one's parable particular person Phaedo Phainomenon philosophy Phyllis Granoff physical possible principle problem of evil proposition psychoanalysis psychology qualia question Ramanuja relations relationship religion repentance Sanskrit Schafer Scripture second-person account second-person experience sense sentence significance Sikh Socrates sort systematic discourse telling temporal theory things third-person thought tion tive tradition true truth understanding University Press vernacular Western words Zulu
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 57 - ... God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this Publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. And the Publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Seite 57 - Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
Seite 126 - If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.
Seite 126 - Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
Seite 186 - It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company.. .a church. ..a home.
Seite 127 - It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
Seite 128 - Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. He said, "Where have you laid him?
Seite 71 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Seite 59 - He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city (Prov.
Seite 62 - I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.