Biblical Narratives and Human Flourishing

Eleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. She has published extensively in philosophy of religion, contemporary metaphysics, and medieval philosophy. Her books include Aquinas (2003), Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (2010), Atonement (2018), The Image of God: The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Mourning (2022), and Grains of Wheat. Suffering and Biblical Narratives (2024).Judith Wolfe is Professor of Philosophical Theology at the University of St Andrews. Her core expertise is in eschatology and apocalypticism in theology, philosophy, and literature, on which she has published widely. With Oxford University Press, she has published Heidegger’s Eschatology, The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought, and the three-volume Oxford History of Modern German Theology.

• 1. Knowledge through Narrative: Philosophical and Theological Explorations of Biblical StoriesEleonore Stump and Judith WolfePART I Biblical Narratives and Human Flourishing 2. God, Humanity, and Meaning in the Book of JonahAaron Segal3. Ecclesiastes and the Good Life for Human BeingsEleonore Stump4. The Unbinding of Isaac: Maimonides on the AqedahJosef Stern5. Abraham, Lazarus, and Returning to Life: Kierkegaard on Existential FaithSharon KrishekPART II Biblical Narratives and Human Flourishing in Relation to God and Others6. Why God Does Not share His Secrets with Us: What We Can Learn from Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on John 15: 14-16 and the Biblical Narrative of AbrahamPatrick Zoll7. Give Truth to JacobSamuel Lebens8. Divine Disappointments: Humans and Other Animals in the Book of Bereishit Tamara Wright and Ian Gamse9. Creation and Participation in John’s GospelDarren Sarisky10. Identifying the Risen Christ: Some Reflections on the Epistemology and Theology of the Road to Emmaus StoryMark WynnPART III Biblical Narratives and Human Flourishing in the Midst of Disorder and Distress11. A Narrative and Apocalyptic Philosophy of Prayer: Being Towards GodSimon Oliver and Judith Wolfe12. Jonah, Alienation, and the Meaning of LifeGodehard Brüntrup13. Images of Mercy: Narrating the Gospel through a Rwandan Catholic ShrineAlison Fitchett-Climenhaga and Nevin Climenhaga

"This book is an important contribution to both theology and the philosophy of religion because it provides careful examples of what it means to read scriptural texts with a philosophical and analytic lens—something that few theologians have expertise to do in a sustained way. This book will interest advanced students of the philosophy of religion as well as those working in constructive theology and ethics. Summing Up: Recommended.” - A.W. Klink (Duke University) in CHOICE