![]() ![]() “There is no more fundamental way to talk of God than in a story,” Hauerwas contends. And as our knowledge of God is learned this way, so too are our lives as disciples of Christ. Our knowledge of God is not primarily communicated by doctrines or dogmas, but rather by stories of the Bible and the great saints of the Church. ![]() “There is no ‘point’ that can be separated from the story,” contends Hauerwas.Įven if some professional theologians take issue with Hauerwas’ emphasis on narrative as the primary way to know God, he is surely correct that this is the way that the average Christian comes to know God. We cannot abstract God from them and still know the God of Christian faith. ![]() Nor are the stories incidental to our understanding of, and participation in, God’s love and grace. ![]() He explains that we come to know God, and thus our lives as persons ordered toward God, through the formative stories of Israel, Jesus and the Church. Hauerwas has taught us that this “narrative” approach to Christian theology is consistent with the way our moral and spiritual lives are formed, regardless of the tradition that forms them. “ The Great Story of Israel: Election, Freedom, Holiness“ “Christian convictions take the form of a story,” explains theologian Stanley Hauerwas in his book, “The Peaceable Kingdom,” from 1983 “or perhaps better, a set of stories that constitutes a tradition, which in turn … forms a community.” Book Review ![]()
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