God and Story in the Church and in Doctrine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16929220 |
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| Authors | Paul S Fiddes (Park University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-22 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-08 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ecclesial Practices (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2214-4463 • E-ISSN: 2214-4471 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22144471-00201001 |
| OpenAlex | W579011462 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The paper aligns theological discussion about narrative theology with an empirical study of story-telling in a congregational setting, drawing conclusions about the ecclesial basis of method in doctrinal theology. It proposes to develop a narrative theology in a form that is inclusive of non-biblical narratives, drawing deductively upon story in Scripture and the past tradition of the church in constructing regulative doctrinal concepts for the community, while insisting that these must always be shaped inductively by the stories which people inhabit inside the church today, and outside the church in cultures which interpenetrate it. The paper offers a particular case-study of reflecting on stories from the Bible, church tradition and modern life among a group of young people of mainly West African heritage in the uk . From a ‘thick’ account of ‘everyday theology’ in the church, it offers suggestions for a reciprocal relation between deductive and inductive movements in making doctrine, taking as an example the doctrinal issue of ‘naming’
Art · Doctrine · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Reciprocal · Relation (database · Sociology · Theology · Christian Theology and Mission · Computer Science · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development
| Highly cited | No |
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