Theology and narrative in Paul Ricoeur

Abstract

Theology and narrative is a study based on Paul Ricoeur’s biblical hermeneutics and a fundamental core of all Theology. The reflection focuses exactly on the processes of theological elaborations present in the experience of reading and listening to the Word of God as dialogical and prayerful expressions of the faith community, based on the fundamental notions of narrative theory and narrative theology, which are constitutive in the reading book of Ruth. These notions lead us to understand the studies of the French theologian guide us to an ability to relate to the meaning of the narrative events that are present in the biblical text. The following sources will be the textual materiality of the research: a) Time and Narrative and Biblical Hermeneutics by Ricoeur and b) the book of Ruth in the “Sacred Text.” The interpretative path will occur in three stages. The first through the investigation of narrative theory, the second around in constituents of a theology of narrative, and finally, a hermeneutical exercise of the narrative of the biblical text.