In the Beginning Were Stories, Not Texts

Download or read book In the Beginning Were Stories, Not Texts written by C S Song and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Song, the Christian faith is deeply rooted in storytelling: stories are the most basic mode of human communication and, in the same idea, the Christian Bible is fundamentally a story. Though, Song regrets the fact that Christians, and above all Christian theologians, so often fail to express their faith in term of stories. Christian theology is most often expressed in terms of concepts, ideas, and systems. Following the conviction that this is the most appropriate way to express our faith, the proposal of this book is to speak of Christian faith and theology through stories rather than systems and texts.