Warum biblische Erzählungen durch ihre Form heilen können: Eine Betrachtung der Emmausgeschichte im Lichte neurobiologisch informierter narrativer Traumatherapie.

This article argues that biblical narratives cannot be reduced to a set of propositions. Biblical texts can have a healing effect through an interplay of their content and form. The grasp of the content of a Biblical narrative which is stated in a set of propositions does not have the same effect as telling a story in which the same content is brought into an order or structure. Based on the findings of narrative trauma therapy and illustrated by the example of the Emmaus story, it is explained why this is the case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]