Two Types of Narrative Theology

Comstock, George C.

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“…Thus, they may ask if it leads to physical health. Did it restore the petitioner's psychic balance?” (Comstock, 1987 , p. 693). Also, analyzing practical efficacy of prayer is common (Albanese, 1999 ; Ly et al, 2018 ).…”

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Intercessory Rote Prayer, Life Longevity and the Mortality of Roman Catholic Bishops: An Exploratory Study

2021

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Based on a computational analysis of a large dataset, this study explores if there is a significant longevity effect of intercessory prayer for a named individual’s well-being, if he receives a very high number of prayers per annum for an extended period. We relied on an observational cohort study, based on data from 1988 to 2018, including 857 Roman Catholic bishops, 500 Catholic priests, and 3038 male academics from six countries. We measured the covariance of the mean length of life, controlled for nationality. It was found that there is a main effect for occupation F(2, 4391) = 4.07, p = 0.017, ηp2 = 0.002, with pairwise comparisons indicating significant differences between the mean life duration of bishops (M = 30,489) and of priests (M = 29,894), but none between the academic teachers (M = 30,147) and either of the other groups. A comparison analysis between bishops from the largest and the smallest dioceses showed no significant difference t(67.31) = 1.61, p = 0.11. The first analysis proved that bishops live longer than priests, but due to a marginal effect size this result should be treated with caution. No difference was found between the mean length of life of bishops from the largest and the smallest dioceses.

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Intercessory Rote Prayer, Life Longevity and the Mortality of Roman Catholic Bishops: An Exploratory Study

2021

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“…Narrative analysis takes its place in the larger context of narrative theology. Comstock (1987), Fackre (1983), Tilley (1985), and McGrath (2001) offer discussions of the historical roots of narrative theology. Comstock claims that with "The Story of Our Life," H. Richard Niebuhr (1941) planted the seed that led to the fruition of narrative theology in the 1970s.…”

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“…Generally, narrative theologians can be divided into three major groupings: foundational theologians, exegetes who examine the mechanics of the texts, and pastoral theologians who consider how biblical narratives function to transform their hearers (Comstock, 1987). Theologians tend to use narrative in three different ways: as a means of doing theology with canonical stories, as a means of facilitating human transformation through life stories, and as a means of fostering the life of Christ in the Christian community via community stories (Fackre, 2001, p. 194;Tilley, 1985, p. xix).…”

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Viewing Biblical Narratives through a Literary Lens: Practicing Narrative Analysis on Matthew 16: 16–20

Corcoran¹

2010

Christian Education Journal: Research on Educational Ministry

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In this essay, following a brief look at the history of narrative theology the theological context of narrative analysis, I intend to teach Christian educators, including laypersons, how to use several of the major concepts of narrative analysis in their study of the Bible. In this article I apply those concepts to a disputed text, Matthew 16:16–20. I then assess the principles of narrative analysis by comparing how Matthew and Mark use the same narrative sources in the writing of their gospels. Finally, I offer an opportunity to practice narrative analysis with a passage from the Gospel of John.

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“…And elsewhere I have argued that certain literary works that were not composed by philosophers can nevertheless be regarded as participating in philosophy of religion, broadly construed (Burley 2017). In this article, however, what I mean to designate by the phrase "narrative philosophy of religion" is the type of philosophical inquiry into religion that, without becoming a work of narrative art itself, takes seriously the contribution of narrative sources to our philosophical understanding of religion and, in the course of developing a philosophical 4 For an accessible survey of narrative theological approaches up to 1987, see Comstock (1987). For more recent perspectives, see Ganzevoort et al (2014).…”

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Narrative philosophy of religion: apologetic and pluralistic orientations

Burley

2019

Int J Philos Relig

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Recent decades have witnessed a growing interest in narrative both in certain areas of philosophy and in the study of religion. The philosophy of religion has not itself been at the forefront of this narrative turn, but exceptions exist-most notably Eleonore Stump's work on biblical stories and the problem of suffering. Characterizing Stump's approach as an apologetic orientation, this article contrasts it with pluralistic orientations that, rather than seeking to defend religious faith, are concerned with doing conceptual justice to the range of possible human perspectives, both religious and nonreligious. By discussing various examples, the article makes a case for narrative philosophy of religion, especially in its pluralistic form.

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Two Types of Narrative Theology

Cited by 13 publications

References 33 publications

Intercessory Rote Prayer, Life Longevity and the Mortality of Roman Catholic Bishops: An Exploratory Study

Intercessory Rote Prayer, Life Longevity and the Mortality of Roman Catholic Bishops: An Exploratory Study

Viewing Biblical Narratives through a Literary Lens: Practicing Narrative Analysis on Matthew 16: 16–20

Narrative philosophy of religion: apologetic and pluralistic orientations

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