Narrative Ethics
The literature on narrative ethics is vast. The entry on "Narrative Ethics" in the Encyclopedia of Bioethics is helpful, with additional resources in the bibliography. What follows is a select bibliography mostly on theological sources dealing with narrative ethics:
Barbieri, Jr., William A., "Ethics and the Narrated Life." Journal of Religion 78, no. 3 (July 1998): 361-86.
Burrell, David and Stanley Hauerwas, "From System to Story: An Alternative Pattern for Rationality in Ethics," Truthfulness and Tragedy, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 1977, pp. 15-39.
Hauerwas, Stanley, "Character, Narrative, and Growth in the Christian Life," A Community of Character, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981, pp. 129-152.
Hauerwas, Stanley, "The Moral Authority of Scripture: The Politics and Ethics of Remembering," Interpretation 34, no.4 (October 1980): 356-70.
Hauerwas, Stanley, "Story and Theology," Truthfulness and Tragedy, pp. 71-81.
McClendon, James, "Narrative Ethics and Christian Ethics," Faith and Philosophy 3, no.4 (1986).
Nelso, Paul, Narrative and Morality: A Theological Inquiry, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987.
Nelson, Hilde Lindemann, ed. Stories and Their Limits: Narrative Approaches to Bioethics. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Simmons, Paul, "The Narrative Ethics of Stanley Hauerwas: A Question of Method," Earl E. Shelp, ed., Secular Bioethics in Theological Perspective.
Spohn, William C., "Parable and Narrative in Christian Ethics," Theological Studies 51, no. 1 (March 1990): 100-114.
Verhey, Allen, Reading the Bible in the Strange World of Medicine, Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003.
Verhey, Allen, Remembering Jesus: Christian Community, Scripture, and the Moral Life, Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002.
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