Grains of wheat: suffering and Biblical narratives
"There is a kind of knowledge that is non-propositional; one variety of it can be acquired in second-person experience of another person, but it can also be transmitted through narratives. This narratively mediated kind of knowledge can be significant for philosophical and theological reflectio...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
[2025]
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| In: | Year: 2025 |
| Series/Journal: | Oxford studies in analytic theology
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible
/ Narrative exegesis
/ Suffering (Motif)
/ Attributes of God
/ Love
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| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible NBC Doctrine of God NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
Souffrance dans la Bible
B Souffrance - Enseignement biblique B Suffering Biblical teaching B Suffering - New Testament teaching B Bible - Criticism, interpretation, etc B Suffering - Biblical teaching B Suffering in the Bible B New Testament - Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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| Summary: | "There is a kind of knowledge that is non-propositional; one variety of it can be acquired in second-person experience of another person, but it can also be transmitted through narratives. This narratively mediated kind of knowledge can be significant for philosophical and theological reflection. Biblical narratives have prompted detailed reflection for so many centuries because they offer profound insights into the nature of the human condition and human flourishing. This book brings together detailed examinations of narratives in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament to yield one large, emergent story, which has something to teach that can be missed when the stories are taken in isolation from one another. These are the stories of Job, Samson, Abraham, Mary of Bethany, the temptations of Christ, the passion of Christ, and the story from the book of Ecclesiastes. Taken together, these narratives depict a possible world in which there is a good for suffering human beings that outweighs their suffering and that could not be gotten without the suffering, not even in a world without the Fall. On this emergent larger story, human suffering is defeated, and peace and joy in human life are possible." -- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [417]-421) and index |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 432 Seiten, 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-287119-0 0-19-287119-6 |
