The result of this is that Scripture will be seen as endorsing various worldly viewpoints that, if the Bible were to be heard with clarity, would instead be exposed as ungodly (19–72). The compulsion for this project comes from the conviction that unless Christians are constantly renewed by the meta-narrative of Scripture, their worldview(s) will be shaped by the various viewpoints up and running in contemporary culture, and that these worldviews will then be the grid(s) through which Christians read Scripture. Whereas the last two hundred years of critical biblical scholarship has highlighted the diversity within the Bible, our authors emphasize its unity, comparing it to a cathedral with various features that become ‘different doors from which we can gain a perspective on God’s whole stunning revelation’ (24). The present work by Bartholomew and Goheen is an attempt to read the Bible as a single coherent narrative. With the publication of Richard Hays’ The Faith of Jesus Christ in 1983, narrative became an interpretive tool across the range of biblical genres, which is only appropriate given that this is a fundamental category for human identity and cultural transmission. This began with the rise of narrative theology and was found in biblical studies mainly in analyses of narrative portions of Scripture.
In the last several decades, narrative has risen to prominence as a useful category in both theology and biblical studies.
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