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Title

God is not a story : realism revisited / Francesca Aran Murphy.

Author

Murphy, Francesca Aran.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press Oxford, 2007.

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Details

Description

viii, 356 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Narrative theology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-345) and indexes.

Contents

Introduction : spectacle -- God is not a story -- Two types of narrative theology : story Barthianism and grammatical Thomism -- What is narrative theology? -- Some hints at an historical context for narrative theology -- Robert Jenson : story Thomism -- Why the movie parallel? -- The church as anonymous celebrity -- Introduction : who makes the church? -- Non-foundationalism -- The hermeneutics of story Barthianism -- The idea of resurrection as foundational -- The movie actor -- The movie and its audience -- Identity equated to story -- The Gospels are not codes -- If the church is everything, everything is the church -- Love makes the church -- Naming God -- Method and content -- The 'why proof' of God's existence -- Robert Jenson gets to the heart of grammatical Thomism -- The why-proof as a contingency cliff-hanger -- Naming God into existence in story-Barthian theology : hermeneutics -- 'God' as one character amongst others -- On not raising the game -- From theodicy to melodrama -- An unresolved problem of evil makes life melodramatic -- First steps in characterizing melodrama -- 'It is a rare melodrama that does not have a villain' -- God as villain in narrative readings of the Bible -- Melodrama : the aftermath of tragedy and of comedy -- The logical necessity of evil : story Thomism -- The unknowability of God as a methodological principle -- A Jansenist illustration of analogy -- A close run in with death -- Liberty, equality, fraternity : Jacques Louis David -- Marat transignified -- The 'why' question revisited : the ontological distinction -- Resurrection as poetic justice -- The natural desire for God : 'religation' -- An argument and the analogy of natality -- Cinematizing the trinity -- Introduction : modalism, tritheism, and psychologism -- What you see is what you get : Herbert McCabe -- Three strategies in trinitarian theology -- Trinitarian monotheism versus descriptive trinitarianism -- Why Jenson is a cinematic modalist -- God in the eye of the camera -- The cartoon trinity : digitalized relationships -- An odd definition of modalism in story Barthianism and narrative Thomism -- Monotheistic trinitarian theology -- Conclusion : a God who is love -- Futurity -- Story Thomism as apocalypticism -- A God who is love -- Truth and personality -- Dare we hope that God exists? -- From analogy to theo-drama -- The eucharistic church -- Melodrama or theo-drama -- Predestination and eschatology : 'time...must be lived.'

Call Number

JFE 07-5732

ISBN

• 9780199219285 (alk. paper)
• 0199219281 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2007010139

OCLC

85892383

Author

Murphy, Francesca Aran.

Title

God is not a story : realism revisited / Francesca Aran Murphy.

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press Oxford, 2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-345) and indexes.

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Research Call Number

JFE 07-5732