Looking Before and After: Testimony and the Christian Life

by Alan Jacobs

In the work of such major theologians as Lesslie Newbigin and Stanley Hauerwas, the "Christian story" is communal, and the individual Christian achieves meaning only through participation in this communally recounted narrative. While Alan Jacobs acknowledges the importance of the communal story, he suggests that something has been neglected in the development of narrative theology -- the narrative dimension of individual Christian lives.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802849814
• ISBN13: 9780802849816
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 8.9"