Living Theology: The Discovery, Understanding, and Critical Revision of James Wm McClendon Jr.’s Biographical Method

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Living Theology: The Discovery, Understanding, and Critical Revision of James Wm McClendon Jr.’s Biographical Method

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Auckland University of Technology

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Tuwhera

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James McClendon is a theologian with a small loyal following. His Biography as Theology contained the suggestion that the practice of theology could be improved by attending to narratives of current faithful lives. This method was fuelled by the notion that images (metaphors) were of special significance in the connection between convictions (the subject of theology) and how that life is embodied. The implications of this suggestion are the focus of this thesis. The methodological approach of...

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Research paper

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Thesis

Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2015

Creator

Neilson, Brendon

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https://openrepository.aut.ac.nz/handle/10292/9283

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Biography / Metaphor / Theology / Philosophy / Embodiment / McClendon / Mark Johnson / Theological method

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