God Is Not a Story

Realism Revisited
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-921928-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 366 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 713 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murphy, Francesca Aran

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction: Spectacle

- 2: The Church as Anonymous Celebrity

- 3: Naming God

- 4: Theodicy and Melodrama

- 5: A Close Run In with Death

- 6: Cinematizing the Trinity

- 7: Conclusion: A God Who Is Love

Über Autor(innen)

Francesca Aran Murphy is Reader in Systematic Theology, University of Aberdeen.