What Is a Story?

by Don Cupitt

Book Overview

Western thought began with an attack on religious myth by philosophers who held that the highest truth must be non-narrative and timeless. They left a paradox to haunt us: for on the one hand everyone knows that stories are important to us and our religion is full of them, while on the other hand stories continue to have a bad name as myths or fictions. It has been so difficult to say just how stories convey truth that until recently theologians were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0334024196
• ISBN13: 9780334024194
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: SCM Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"