Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: The Power of Narrative -- 1 "They Stooped to Conquer": Cultural Vitality and the Narrative Impulse -- 2 Gnosis, Narrative, and the Occasion of Repentance -- 3 The Scandal of Revelation -- 4 Second-Person Accounts and the Problem of Evil -- PART II: The Place of Narrative -- 5 Social Transformation as Return of Story Tradition -- 6 Anecdote as the Essence of Historical Understanding -- 7 Hagiography and Hindu Historical Consciousness -- PART III: The Promise of Narrative -- 8 Narrative and Theological Aspects of Freudian and Jungian Psychology -- 9 Words, Deeds, and Words about Deeds -- 10 Narrative Theology from an Evangelical Perspective -- 11 Living within a Text -- PART IV: The Problems of Narrative -- 12 The Limits of Narrative Theology -- 13 Narrative Ethics and Normative Objectivity -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.