Truth and Christian ethics: a narratival perspective

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Abstract:: In this paper, I am going to consider some of the forms that truthfulness can take in the Christian life. At the core of this account will be the idea of storied identity, and in the course of the discussion, I hope to throw some light on the following questions. In general terms, what does it take to live truthfully with respect to some narrative? More exactly, how might that truthfulness be realised in bodily terms? And, finally, how might living truthfully with respect to a narrative contribute to the further elaboration of the narrative? Of course, in our present context, my aim is to address these questions with reference to the concerns of Christian ethics in particular – and I shall take as my focus, therefore, the kind of storied truthfulness that is embodied in the practice of neighbour love, and the question of how that truthfulness might be extended through participation in the eucharist.

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Copyright holder:: Mark Wynn.
Rights statement:: © The Author(s) 2021. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
Notes:: This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version will be available online from a forthcoming edition of Studies in Christian Ethics.

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