Faith and NarrativeKeith E. Yandell 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. |
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... sense can be made of the tragedies of life and the vagaries of history . Much that is good , and much that is evil , can be under- stood in these terms . But hatred and death , the Holocaust and anti - Semitism , re- main , neither ...
... sense can be made of the tragedies of life and the vagaries of history . Much that is good , and much that is evil , can be under- stood in these terms . But hatred and death , the Holocaust and anti - Semitism , re- main , neither ...
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... sense that nothing much has happened in India . It is true that one can read thousands of pages of Sanskrit text ... sense of history of two sorts . One is a sense of one's temporal place in cosmic history in which aeons of time are ...
... sense that nothing much has happened in India . It is true that one can read thousands of pages of Sanskrit text ... sense of history of two sorts . One is a sense of one's temporal place in cosmic history in which aeons of time are ...
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... sense of one's own place in a religious community with its own history , a history typically centered around its founding and succeeding saints and its tem- ples . Both hagiographies and temple histories abound in Hindu , Jain , and ...
... sense of one's own place in a religious community with its own history , a history typically centered around its founding and succeeding saints and its tem- ples . Both hagiographies and temple histories abound in Hindu , Jain , and ...
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... sense judg- ments or opinions regarding specific cases -- either a very concrete story is told in which a moral judgment must be made , or one reflects on what sort of person one would want for some role or task or relationship ...
... sense judg- ments or opinions regarding specific cases -- either a very concrete story is told in which a moral judgment must be made , or one reflects on what sort of person one would want for some role or task or relationship ...
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... sense other than one that does not happen to jibe with some narrative tradition which is neither better nor worse than its multitudinous competitors . There are purely physicalistic or materialist narratives in which ethics neces ...
... sense other than one that does not happen to jibe with some narrative tradition which is neither better nor worse than its multitudinous competitors . There are purely physicalistic or materialist narratives in which ethics neces ...
Contents
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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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Page 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.
Page 57 - Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
Page 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.
Page 126 - Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
Page 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.
Page 127 - It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.