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God Is Not a Story

By Francesca Aran Murphy

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2007
ISBN
9780199219285, 0199219281
LCC
BT83.78 .M87 2007
Open Library ID
OL10145849M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4281595 bytes)
Pages
370\370
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

A challenging critique of narrative theologies, including the works of George Lindbeck, Robert Jenson, and Herbert McCabe. Francesca Aran Murphy argues that the use of the concept of story or narrative in theology is circular and self-referential, and that the widespread notion that the role of the theologian is to 'tell God's story' has not helped theology to advance the reality of its doctrines. Murphy contends that the scriptural revelation on which Christian theology depends is not a story or a plot but a dramatic encounter between mysterious, free, and unpredictable persons. She offers her own alternative approach, making use of cinema and film theory, and engaging in particular in a dialogue with the work of Hans Urs von Balthasar.

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