Reading the Universe Story Theologically: The Contribution of a Biblical Narrative Imagination

J. M. Ashley

DOI:10.1177/004056391007100405

Corpus ID: 55990053

Reading the Universe Story Theologically: The Contribution of a Biblical Narrative Imagination

@article{Ashley2010ReadingTU,
  title={Reading the Universe Story Theologically: The Contribution of a Biblical Narrative Imagination},
  author={J. M. Ashley},
  journal={Theological Studies},
  year={2010},
  volume={71},
  pages={870 - 902}
}

J. M. Ashley

Published 2010

Philosophy

Theological Studies

The article assesses different ways of incorporating the results of the historical sciences of cosmology, geology, and evolutionary biology into theology. Appeal to biblical poetics and the philosophical and theological hermeneutics of narrative reveals serious flaws in the attempt to recast a history of origins as a “universe story.” Framing the results of science as a mosaic of petit narratives (such as provided by Aldo Leopold's classic Sand County Almanac) gives a more adequate correlation… CONTINUE READING

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