Narrative Theology and Moral Theology

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

Autorentext
Alexander Lucie-Smith is the Head of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Tangaza College, Nairobi, Kenya, a constituent college of the Catholic University of East Africa, where he teaches fundamental moral theology. He is an ordained Catholic priest and a member of the Institute of Charity. He holds an MA from Oxford in English Literature, and a Licence in moral theology from the Gregorian University, Rome. Apart from this he is a published novelist, a regular book reviewer for The Tablet and a columnist for the Catholic Herald, under the pseudonym David McLaurin.

Inhalt
Chapter 1 Narrative Theology as a New Approach to Theology; Chapter 2 Alasdair MacIntyre; Chapter 3 Stanley Hauerwas; Chapter 4 H.T. Engelhardt; Chapter 5 The Rawlsian Alternative; Chapter 6 Beyond Rawls; Chapter 7 The Augustinian Approach; Chapter 8 Three Models of Narrative Theology; Chapter 9 A Narrative Moral Theology in Practice;