The Promise of Narrative Theology: Recovering the Gospel in the Church

This book is an experiment in systematic theology. It is an attempt to see if a particular interpretation of Christian narrative speaks to the situation of Christians in affluent western cultures, a context in which Christian identity is increasingly problematic. Stroup's work purposes to determine if the use of narrative in theology casts any new light on what Christians mean by "revelation," the doctrine some Christian theologians have appealed to as the basis for what Christians know and confess about God.