Table of Contents:
  • "They stooped to conquer" : cultural vitality and the narrative impulse / Lamin Sanneh
  • Gnosis, narrative, and the occasion of repentance / David L. Jeffrey
  • The scandal of revelation / George Steiner
  • Second-person accounts and the problem of evil / Eleonore Stump
  • Social transformation as return of story tradition / James Billington
  • Anecdote as the essence of historical understanding / Robert E. Frykenberg
  • Hagiography and Hindu historical consciousness / John B. Carman
  • Narrative and theological aspects of Freudian and Jungian psychology / Paul Vitz
  • Words, deeds, and words about deeds / Jon N. Moline
  • Narrative theology from an evangelical perspective / Gabriel Fackre
  • Living within a text / Nicholas Wolterstorff
  • The limits of narrative theology / Paul Griffiths
  • Narrative ethics and normative objectivity / Keith E. Yandell.