Faith and Narrative

Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
PART I: The Power of Narrative......Page 22
1 "They Stooped to Conquer": Cultural Vitality and the Narrative Impulse......Page 24
2 Gnosis, Narrative, and the Occasion of Repentance......Page 62
3 The Scandal of Revelation......Page 77
4 Second-Person Accounts and the Problem of Evil......Page 95
PART II: The Place of Narrative......Page 114
5 Social Transformation as Return of Story Tradition......Page 116
6 Anecdote as the Essence of Historical Understanding......Page 125
7 Hagiography and Hindu Historical Consciousness......Page 147
PART III: The Promise of Narrative......Page 162
8 Narrative and Theological Aspects of Freudian and Jungian Psychology......Page 164
9 Words, Deeds, and Words about Deeds......Page 176
10 Narrative Theology from an Evangelical Perspective......Page 197
11 Living within a Text......Page 211
PART IV: The Problems of Narrative......Page 224
12 The Limits of Narrative Theology......Page 226
13 Narrative Ethics and Normative Objectivity......Page 246
A......Page 270
C......Page 271
E......Page 272
G......Page 273
J......Page 274
M......Page 275
O......Page 276
R......Page 277
S......Page 278
W......Page 279
Z......Page 280