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  1. Is it Good to Conceive of One’s Life Narratively?Sally Latham & Mark Pinder - 2023 - Philosophia 51 (4):2005-2014.
    Grace Hibshman has developed a new explanation for why narrative self-conceptions might contribute to one’s flourishing: conceiving of one’s life narratively, she argues, can facilitate an improved self-understanding. In this short paper, we argue that, pace Hibshman, life narratives tend to misrepresent and mislead. So while they may give the impression of an improved self-understanding, that impression is typically mistaken. In this respect, conceiving of one’s life narratively hinders flourishing.
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  • Images of Mercy: Narrating the Gospel through a Rwandan Catholic Shrine.Alison Fitchett-Climenhaga & Nevin Climenhaga - 2024 - In Eleonore Stump & Judith Wolfe, Biblical Narratives and Human Flourishing: Knowledge Through Narrative. Routledge. pp. 199-218.
    This chapter explores the role that non-textual narrations of biblical stories can play in Christian life and practice. Our case study is the Shrine of Divine Mercy in Kabuga, Rwanda. The stations at the shrine tell the story of Jesus’s life and passion, incorporating images from the Catholic devotional tradition of Divine Mercy and elements evoking the Rwandan genocide. While many philosophical accounts of narratives presuppose that narratives are textual, material and visual art like the Kabuga shrine can also be (...)
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