God Is Not a Story: Realism Revisited

Contents......Page 8
1. God is Not a Story......Page 10
2. Two Types of Narrative Theology: Story Barthianism and Grammatical Thomism......Page 14
3. What is Narrative Theology?......Page 16
4. Some Hints at an Historical Context for Narrative Theology......Page 19
5. Robert Jenson: Story Thomism......Page 25
6. Why the Movie Parallel?......Page 31
1. Introduction: Who Makes the Church?......Page 36
2. Non-Foundationalism......Page 40
3. The Hermeneutics of Story Barthianism......Page 47
4. The Idea of Resurrection as Foundational......Page 66
5. The Movie Actor......Page 73
6. The Movie and its Audience......Page 75
7. Identity Equated to Story......Page 79
8. The Gospels Are Not Codes......Page 82
9. If the Church is Everything, Everything is the Church......Page 86
10. Love Makes the Church......Page 90
1. Method and Content......Page 94
2. The ‘Why Proof’ of God’s Existence......Page 98
3. Robert Jenson Gets to the Heart of Grammatical Thomism......Page 102
4. The Why-Proof as a Contingency Cliff-Hanger......Page 105
5. Naming God into Existence in Story-Barthian Theology: Hermeneutics......Page 122
6. ‘God’ as One Character Amongst Others......Page 132
7. On Not Raising the Game......Page 134
1. An Unresolved Problem of Evil Makes Life Melodramatic......Page 141
2. First Steps in Characterizing Melodrama......Page 151
3. ‘It is a Rare Melodrama that does not have a Villain’......Page 153
4. God as Villain in Narrative Readings of the Bible......Page 155
5. Melodrama: The Aftermath of Tragedy and of Comedy......Page 157
6. The Logical Necessity of Evil: Story Thomism......Page 165
7. The Unknowability of God as a Methodological Principle......Page 169
8. A Jansenist Illustration of Analogy......Page 176
1. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Jacques Louis David......Page 185
2. Marat Transignified......Page 189
3. The ‘Why’ Question Revisited: The Ontological Distinction......Page 197
4. Resurrection as Poetic Justice......Page 203
5. The Natural Desire for God: ‘Religation’......Page 210
6. An Argument and the Analogy of Natality......Page 214
1. Introduction: Modalism, Tritheism, and Psychologism......Page 246
2. What You See is What You Get: Herbert McCabe......Page 250
3. Three Strategies in Trinitarian Theology......Page 252
4. Trinitarian Monotheism versus Descriptive Trinitarianism......Page 264
5. Why Jenson is a Cinematic Modalist......Page 272
6. God in the Eye of the Camera......Page 277
7. The Cartoon Trinity: Digitalized Relationships......Page 280
8. An Odd Definition of Modalism in Story Barthianism and Narrative Thomism......Page 288
9. Monotheistic Trinitarian Theology......Page 289
1. Futurity......Page 302
2. Story Thomism as Apocalypticism......Page 309
3. A God Who Is Love......Page 312
4. Truth and Personality......Page 314
5. Dare We Hope that God Exists?......Page 319
6. From Analogy to Theo-Drama......Page 324
7. The Eucharistic Church......Page 330
8. Melodrama or Theo-drama......Page 335
9. Predestination and Eschatology: ‘Time … must be lived’......Page 338
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