The Dark Interval: Towards a Theology of Story

By John Dominic Crossan

Book Overview

From myth to parable, Crossan identifies five types of stories. Among these types it is parable that subverts the world and undercuts the safe shelter we build. Using literary theory, philosophy,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0944344062
• ISBN13: 9780944344064
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Polebridge Press
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Excellent introduction to narrative theology

The Dark Interval: Towards a Theology of Story is one of the best introductions to narrative theology in print. Yes, this is the same Crossan associated with the search for the historical Jesus - but avoiding that strain of contemporary theology is no excuse to miss this gem.Crossan is widely educated and very comfortably draws from a number of literary, philosophical and theological sources. His argument on the relationship between limit, game, and narrative is especially thought provoking. His analysis of parables as cross-expectations is one of the more interesting and thought-provoking studies of parables. The net result of his line of thought is that the reader gains a pratical rather than strictly theorectical understanding of narrative theology ... and comes to see it as a natural tool of interpretation of life - one's own or Christ's/