Currently, I am reading Brian McLaren's A New Kind of Christianity. In his book, McLaren identifies what he believes are central questions for the new kind of Christianity that is emerging. One of those questions has to do with the biblical narrative.
According to McLaren, formerly persons read the Bible "as a series of disconnected quotes and episodes yielding maxims, rules, formulas, anecdotes, propositions, and wise sayings . . . [with] little or no sense of the larger story into which the statements fit and in which their meaning took shape." McLaren notes that reading the Bible is such a way shrinks the text and in doing so shrinks us as well. He suggests exploring whether there is a discernable plotline of the biblical library. [By the way, there is one -- that will be another post.] What might the deep problems the original Christian story was trying to solve have been? According to the Bible, what is the big picture, like where did we come from and where are we going and where are we now?
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