Introduction : spectacle
God is not a story
Two types of narrative theology : story Barthianism and grammatical Thomism
What is narrative theology?
Some hints at an historical context for narrative theology
Robert Jenson : story Thomism
Why the movie parallel?
The church as anonymous celebrity
Introduction : who makes the church?
Non-foundationalism
The hermeneutics of story Barthianism
The idea of resurrection as foundational
The movie actor
The movie and its audience
Identity equated to story
The Gospels are not codes
If the church is everything, everything is the church
Love makes the church
Naming God
Method and content
The 'why proof' of God's existence
Robert Jenson gets to the heart of grammatical Thomism
The why-proof as a contingency cliff-hanger
Naming God into existence in story-Barthian theology : hermeneutics
'God' as one character amongst others
On not raising the game
From theodicy to melodrama
An unresolved problem of evil makes life melodramatic
First steps in characterizing melodrama
'It is a rare melodrama that does not have a villain'
God as villain in narrative readings of the Bible
Melodrama : the aftermath of tragedy and of comedy
The logical necessity of evil : story Thomism
The unknowability of God as a methodological principle
A Jansenist illustration of analogy
A close run in with death
Liberty, equality, fraternity : Jacques Louis David
Marat transignified
The 'why' question revisited : the ontological distinction
Resurrection as poetic justice
The natural desire for God : 'religation'
An argument and the analogy of natality
Cinematizing the trinity
Introduction : modalism, tritheism, and psychologism
What you see is what you get : Herbert McCabe
Three strategies in trinitarian theology
Trinitarian monotheism versus descriptive trinitarianism
Why Jenson is a cinematic modalist
God in the eye of the camera
The cartoon trinity : digitalized relationships
An odd definition of modalism in story Barthianism and narrative Thomism
Monotheistic trinitarian theology
Conclusion : a God who is love
Futurity
Story Thomism as apocalypticism
A God who is love
Truth and personality
Dare we hope that God exists?
From analogy to theo-drama
The eucharistic church
Melodrama or theo-drama
Predestination and eschatology : 'time...must be lived.'
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