Why Narrative?
Readings in Narrative Theology
Edited by Stanley Hauerwas and L. Gregory Jones
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
376 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 16.50 in
- Paperback
- 9781579100650
- Published: October 1997
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Stanley Hauerwas is professor emeritus of ethics at Duke University where he held the Gilbert T. Rowe chair for more than twenty years. Among his numerous publications are Sanctify Them in the Truth: Holiness Exemplified (1998) and Living Gently in a Violent World, with Jean Vanier (2008). His latest publication is Fully Alive: The Apocalyptic Humanism of Karl Barth (University of Virginia Press, 2023).
L. Gregory Jones is Dean and Professor of Theology at Duke Divinity School in Durham, NC. He is an ordained United Methodist pastor, author of Embodying Forgiveness, and coauthor of Everyday Matters: Intersections of Life and Faith. Jones also contributes regularly to The Christian Century magazine. He and his wife, the Reverend Susan Pendleton Jones, have three children.
"Quietly, but irreversibly, the categories of critical theology have shifted and continue to shift. Not long ago, 'narrative' was so flimsy and vulnerable. Almost without our noticing, 'narrative and theology' are now joined together in a way that recharacterizes both terms...
"The contributions to and advances in this fundamental shift are the work of a limited number of scholars, but their work is scattered in too many journals and books. This marvelous collection brings many of the most important resources together in one place.... The editors have rendered us a singular service in making these materials so conveniently available. I anticipate that the book will become both a primary tool for much teaching and a crucial point of reference for further work."
--Walter Brueggemann