God is Not a Story: Realism Revisited. By Francesca Aran Murphy
The clearly, but hardly catchily, entitled God is Not a Story is a dense and difficult critique of two recent movements in Western theology: ‘story Barthianism’ and ‘grammatical Thomism’. The author sees each of these forms of narrative theology as ultimately to be found wanting for not doing enough...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 60, Issue: 1, Pages: 338-340 |
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| Summary: | The clearly, but hardly catchily, entitled God is Not a Story is a dense and difficult critique of two recent movements in Western theology: ‘story Barthianism’ and ‘grammatical Thomism’. The author sees each of these forms of narrative theology as ultimately to be found wanting for not doing enough with the reality of God, and thus falling into the trap of what each opposes. The major scholarly contribution the work makes is unusual but full of insight. Murphy uses much literary and film-critical work to ‘get at’ the issues which the two forms of narrative theology raise on the contemporary scene. Though the use of such non-theological material sometimes seems mere parallelism, and the juxtapositions at times uncomfortable, persistence is eventually rewarded. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fln142 |