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Apologetics and the Pathos of Narrative Theology

Theologians are, by profession if not by nature, a disputatious lot, and so it always comes as some surprise to find a consensus forming among so contentious a breed. But such seems to be the case among that growing body of North American theologians who claim for narrative the most privileged locus for doing theology. To be sure, the term "narrative" covers a wide swath, from denoting the formal nature of a literary genre to describing the essentially storied nature of human life, indeed of revelation itself.' But this wide range of issues that narrative theology has felt emboldened to take up is not just a matter of emphasis, even less of division in the ranks, but is much more a testimony to the heuristic power of the topic itself: that it can cover so wide a field and yet yield such an abundant harvest of real insight shows, to its advocates, both its power to unify diverse phenomena and its right to legitimate itself as the most fruitful method for reflection on Christian truths.