The Return of the Storyteller: Consequences for Humanities and Theology
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The article examines the figure of the storyteller as a subject of culture, who appears to replace the modernist author and the postmodernist interpreter. The anthropology of the storyteller as suggested by Walter Benjamin and the reasons for the marginalization of storytelling are described. Cultural motives for the return of the storyteller in contemporary humanities and theology are disclosed. The ideas of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Frank Rudolf Ankersmit, Emanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Marion and Vladimir Bibikhin, which enable one to describe the actualization of the figure of the storyteller, are analyzed. The connection between thanksgiving and laudatory discourse with the narration-as-evidence is demonstrated in the context of the Eucharistic hermeneutics. Such forms of the actualization of the storytelling as hymn, lamentation, sermon and testimony in their connection to the Eucharistic anthropology are presented.References
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Filonenko, A. (2009). The Return of the Storyteller: Consequences for Humanities and Theology. Sententiae, 21(2), 114–135. https://doi.org/10.22240/sent21.02.114
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