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ISBN 10: 1-57910-021-X
ISBN 13: 978-1-57910-021-6
Pages: 208
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 07/30/2002
Division: Wipf and Stock
Category: Theology
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Biography as Theology
How Life Stories Can Remake Today's Theology By James Wm. McClendon
Author - James Wm. McClendon
This "minor classic” of the narrative theology movement proposes to use biography as a way of doing theology, rather than using biography to set forth models of exemplary living to inspire the faithful. By looking at the lives of four signi¹cant persons (Dag Hammarskjöld, Martin Luther King, Jr., Clarence Jordan, and Charles Ives), the author discovers a theology that is adequate to account for the kind of lives these persons lived. This unique approach to theology is applicable to any religion, but the author has chosen to work within his own Christian tradition in this book. The book concludes with suggested methods by which the work of doing theology biographically can be carried further.
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