Looking before and after : testimony and the Christian life
In the work of such major theologians as Lesslie Newbigin and Stanley Hauerwas, the "Christian story" is communal, and the individual Christian achieves meaning only through participation in this communally recounted narrative. While Alan Jacobs acknowledges the importance of the communal story, he suggests that something has been neglected in the development of narrative theology -- the narrative dimension of individual Christian lives. Looking Before and After encourages us to ask how individual lives can, in a specifically Christian sense, be meaningful, how we can discern and rightly interpret those meanings, and how we might tell our own stories in ways that avoid the dangers of presumption and despair. In his typically beautiful writing style, Jacobs here reinvigorates narrative theology and demonstrates the power of individual life stories well told and properly understood. - Publisher
Print Book, English, 2008
William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., 2008
Stob lectures, 2006
Christian biography
x, 114 pages ; 23 cm.
9780802849816, 0802849814
181072607
Introduction: On narrative theology
My testimony
Testimony and testifying
Memoria
Despair, presumption, hope
The first Adam and the last