Narrative Theology and Moral Theology: The Infinite HorizonRoutledge, 2016 M04 15 - 242 pages Moral thinking today finds itself stranded between the particular and the universal. Alasdair MacIntyre's work on narrative, discussed here along with that of Stanley Hauerwas and H. T. Engelhardt, aims to undo the perceived damage done by the Enlightenment by returning to narrative and abandoning the illusion of a disembodied reason that claims to be able to give a coherent explanation for everything. It is precisely this - a theory that holds good for all cases - that John Rawls proposed, drawing on the heritage of Emmanuel Kant. Who is right? Must universality be abandoned? Must we only think about morality in terms that are relative, bound by space and time? Alexander Lucie-Smith attempts to answer these questions by examining the nature of narrative itself as well as the particular narratives of Rawls and St Augustine. Bound and rooted as they are in history and personal experience, narratives nevertheless strain at the limits imposed on them. It is Lucie-Smith's contention that each narrative that points to a lived morality exists against the background of an infinite horizon, and thus it is that the particular and the rooted can also make us aware of the universal and unchanging. |
Contents
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2 Alasdair MacIntyre | 13 |
3 Stanley Hauerwas | 33 |
4 HT Engelhardt | 47 |
5 The Rawlsian Alternative | 73 |
6 Beyond Rawls | 109 |
7 The Augustinian Approach | 123 |
8 Three Models of Narrative Theology | 165 |
9 A Narrative Moral Theology in Practice | 199 |
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Narrative Theology and Moral Theology: The Infinite Horizon Alexander Lucie-Smith Limited preview - 2016 |
Narrative Theology and Moral Theology: The Infinite Horizon Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith Limited preview - 2013 |
Narrative Theology and Moral Theology: The Infinite Horizon Alexander Lucie-Smith,Taylor & Francis Group No preview available - 2021 |
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Alasdair MacIntyre argument Augustine Augustine’s Bathsheba belief Bioethics and Secular Catholic chapter character choice choose Christian Bioethics Church City City of God claims comprehensive doctrine concept conclusion Confessions culture David divine embedded Engelhardt Enlightenment Ennarationes ethics example exclave existence experience fact Foundations of Bioethics Foundations of Christian Galston God’s Gustafson Hauerwas Hauerwas’s heart horizon of meaning idea important infinity Jesus John Rawls Justice as Fairness Kitty Genovese language live MacIntyre MacIntyre’s moral theology narrative theology nature one’s Original Position ourselves Overlapping Consensus parable particular Peaceable Kingdom perhaps person philosophy pluralism Political Liberalism possible principles question rational Rawls’s Rawlsian reading reality reason religious Samaritan second model Secular Humanism seems seen sense shared simply social society sort speak Stanley Hauerwas Summa Theologiae tells Theory of Justice things thinking third model transcends true understanding Virtue vision words