Narrative theology and moral theology : the infinite horizon
Alexander Lucie-Smith (Author)
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 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 a
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Narrative Theology as a New Approach to Theology; 2 Alasdair MacIntyre; 3 Stanley Hauerwas; 4 H.T. Engelhardt; 5 The Rawlsian Alternative; 6 Beyond Rawls; 7 The Augustinian Approach; 8 Three Models of Narrative Theology; 9 A Narrative Moral Theology in Practice; Bibliography; Index
"First published 2007 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso
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