Description: The Christian Bible is fundamentally a story. Writers,
painters, sculptors, artists, and indeed, people of all walks of
life live by the telling of their stories. Stories are the most
basic mode of human communication. Thus it is vital to ask why
Christians and above all Christian theologians so often fail to
express their faith in terms of story. The vast majority of the
Hebrew Scriptures, for example, consist of stories. Jesus
proclaimed and taught about the Reign of God through stories and
parables. At the heart of the Christian faith are stories, not
concepts, propositions, or ideas. Given the deep rootedness of the
Christian faith in storytelling, this book seeks to address the
fact that Christian theology has too often taken the form of
concepts, ideas, and systems. This book is an attempt to speak of
Christian faith and theology in stories rather than systems.
Through stories, both biblical and non-biblical, this book shows
how we might reimagine the task of Christian theology in the life
of faith today. At its heart is the conviction that in the
beginning there were stories and that, in the end and indeed,
beyond the end, are stories, not texts, ideas, and concepts.
Endorsements: ""A consummate storyteller, C. S. Song has been at
the leading edge of contemporary Christian theology for several
decades now. This latest work is essential reading for anyone who
has grown weary of systematic formulations. Song's faithful
narrative is a story well told."" -James Treat University of
Illinois ""C. S. Song has been a consistent and prolific writer of
story theology. He has given us rich material over the years. Here
is more. His work is brilliant, imaginative, metaphorical,
instructive, and faithful."" -Archie Smith Jr. Pacific School of
Religion and Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley ""C. S. Song the
Griot chants with the entrancing cadence of an old-hand peddler of
tales. Story-telling is a human practice of meaning-making, he
reminds us, and through webs of stories we catch potent expressions
of divine mystery and human struggle. Uninvested in
cultural-linguistic expositions for narrative classification and
hermeneutic regulation, Song simply invites readers/listeners into
story worlds across time and cultures so that we may live into the
fantastical nature of God-talk and human-talk."" -Mai-Anh Le Tran
Eden Theological Seminary, St. Louis About the Contributor(s): C.
S. Song is Chair Professor of Theology at Yu Shan Theological
Seminary and Chang Jong Christian University in Taiwan.
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