Description: Narrative Theology and Moral Theology : The Infinite Horizon, Hardcover by Lucie-smith, Alexander, ISBN 0754656802, ISBN-13 9780754656807, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 to 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 about morality in terms that are relative, bound by space and time? Alexander Lucie-Smith attempts to answer these questions by examining the nature of narrative itself as well as the particular narratives of Rawls and St Augustine. Bound and rooted as they are in history and personal experience, narratives nevertheless strain at the limits imposed on them. It is Lucie-Smith's contention that each narrative that points to a lived morality exists against the background of an infinite horizon, and thus it is that the particular and the rooted can also make us aware of the universal and unchanging.
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Book Title: Narrative Theology and Moral Theology : The Infinite Horizon
Number of Pages: 242 Pages
Publication Name: Narrative Theology and Moral Theology : the Infinite Horizon
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: Theology, Christian Theology / Ethics
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20.8 Oz
Author: Alexander Lucie-Smith
Item Length: 9.4 in
Subject Area: Religion
Item Width: 6.3 in
Series: Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
Format: Hardcover