truthfulness definition
truthfulness of the narrative is by no means evaluated by how it has succeeded in upholding its vision. One is reminded here of Paul Ricouer, who has spoken of “interpretative narratives,” in which there is no interpretative action from the side of the author or the reader, but rather the very structure of narrative itself interprets itself.160 In short, while narrative must be constantly re-narrated, it must not yield to the “pluralism” of hermeneutic suspicion, but must always recover itself as “kerygmatic suasion […] and so engage in the practice of a persuasion that is also a practice of the peace it proclaims.”161