In the beginning were stories, not texts

story theology

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The Christian Bible is fundamentally a story. Writers, painters, sculptors, artists, and indeed, people of all walks of life live by the telling of their stories. Stories are the most basic mode of human communication. Thus it is vital to ask why Christians and above all Christian theologians so often fail to express their faith in terms of story. The vast majority of the Hebrew Scriptures, for example, consists of stories. Jesus proclaimed and taught about the Reign of God through stories and parables. At the heart of the Christian faith are stories, not concepts, propositions, or ideas. Given the deep rootedness of the Christian faith in storytelling, this book seeks to address the fact that Christian theology has too often taken the form of concepts, ideas, and systems. This book is an attempt to speak of Christian faith and theology in stories rather than systems. Through stories, both biblical and non-biblical, this book shows how we might reimagine the task of Christian theology in the life of faith today. At its heart is the conviction that in the beginning there were stories and that, in the end and indeed, beyond the end, are stories, not texts, ideas, and concepts.

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Cascade Books
Language
English
Pages
172

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Table of Contents

In the beginning were stories, not texts
Story is the matrix of theology
Theology rewrites stories
Stories rectify theology
The theological power of stories
In search of our roots
Stories within a story
Stories are culturally distinctive
Stories can be theologically interactive
The Bible, stories, and theology.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-172).

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Eugene

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Library of Congress
BT83.78 .S66 2011

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Pagination
vii, 172 p. ;
Number of pages
172

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Open Library
OL25220869M
ISBN 10
1608997049
ISBN 13
9781608997046
LCCN
2011275592
OCLC/WorldCat
768985298

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