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Abstract

"A range of methodologies is currently being developed for studying the biblical text whose raison d'etre consists of a particular insight into the nature of literature qua literature. For this reason such methodologies apply equally to the whole field of secular literature, so that a fruitful dialogue is possible as investigations proceed. Among these methods Narrative Theology has become prominent, and for some investigators, represents, potentially, one of the most fruitf~I areas of research .. As a young discipline, it is estimated modestly as complementing the more establ1s~ed critico-historical methods and, more radically, as a completely new way of doing theology, challenging the propositional and credal basis of Christianity in favour of a more individual, subjective and privatised approach"