Testimonies: The Stories of the Christian Life: Despair, Presumption, and Hope
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Document Type
Lecture
Abstract
"Despair, Presumption, and Hope" This second lecture explores the pitfalls of both memory and imagination, the constant temptations to assign false meanings to the stories of our lives: to discern unreasonably comforting narratives, or to write for oneself a false tragedy, or to fail to discern any narrative at all. We will conclude with a meditation on hope as, so to speak, the narrative virtue--the virtue that enables us to tell the right stories about our lives and to tell them wisely, for our benefit and that of our fellow Christians.
Publication Date
11-8-2006
Recommended Citation
Jacobs, Alan, "Testimonies: The Stories of the Christian Life: Despair, Presumption, and Hope" (2006). Henry Stob Lectures. 45.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/stob_lectures/45