{"id":259,"date":"2005-08-25T14:14:27","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T14:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2005\/08\/emergence-and-scripture.html"},"modified":"2005-08-25T14:14:27","modified_gmt":"2005-08-25T14:14:27","slug":"emergence-and-scripture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2005\/08\/emergence-and-scripture.html","title":{"rendered":"Emergence and Scripture"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is only 2005 and I am willing to stick my neck out and announce the best book on Scripture for the new century. Kevin Vanhoozer, The Drama of Doctrine<\/a><\/em>, has captured the modern discussions about propositionalist, expressivist, and the cultural-linguistic models of Scripture and community and tradition, and has deftly tied them into a Theo-dramatic model that makes a bucket load of sense. His model for thinking is drama.
\nIt is a longish book, and I do hope he writes a small one for lay folks, but here is a summary of a key part of the book. (I’ll probably post more comments over the next week or so.)
\nIn sum: the directive [as in a stage director] theory of doctrines contributes to a theo-dramatic understanding, and this in two ways: (1) doctrines seeks to bear faithful witness to Scripture by clarifying the plot and the dramatis personae of Scripture; (2) doctrine enables contemporary readers of Scripture to be faithful witnesses by participating in and continuing the theo-drama in ever-new cultural contexts<\/em> (p. 108).
\nThis book deserves careful reading, and I do hope many can see that it can take us beyond the propositional view that the Bible is a download of divine information, beyond the expressivist view that Scripture is nothing but human experience of God, beyond the cultural-linguistic view that Scripture and community are inseparable with more emphasis on local communities making meaning, to a canonical-linguistic model where drama — God as person, Scripture as God’s speech-action, and Church as performing the script as spirited by God’s Spirit — can serve us with a more holistic model of how Scripture works.
\nWhether or not Kevin finds themes of value in the emerging movement or not is not my point: what we find here is the sort of discussion emerging thinkers need to consider as they come to terms with Scripture in our day and for our times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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