Creation Stories: Stanley Hauerwas, Same-Sex Marriage, and Narrative in Law and Theology

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The essay argues explores the use of narrative in both law and theology in the context of the marriage equality movement. This essay argues that the narrative movement in law, which conceives of narrative as individual constructs that can be strategically deployed in the furtherance of substantive objectives, including the attainment of LGBT equality. By contrast, the narrative theological movement conceives of narrative as constitutive of community and individual identity. The narrative theology movement’s resistance of religion’s quest for relevance in the social order underwrites its turn to narrative as an effort to reclaim the particularity of Christian identity capable of generating normative claims on Christian practice. The essay’s central argument is that criticism of the marriage equality movement might be better understood, and might better understand itself, by recognizing their connection to the narrative theology movement. Through a discussion of liberal theological movem

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