What does narrative theology look like?
What might it look like to take rigorous historical critical scholarship (or believing criticism) and not stop with exegetical details but move into rich theological exposition?
It looks like this:
I just finished this book a few minutes ago, and the culminating chapter, with its theological reflections, is strewn with marginal comments such as “Yes!” “Yes!”, a bit of “*”, and lots of “YES!”
This book works through the Gentile mission, in particular, in the Book of Acts. It strives to come up with a paradigm for understanding both that the gospel generates social upheaval and that the early Christian movement is proclaimed not worthy of death by the Romans.
I’ll work my way through the book, maybe starting tomorrow, but wanted to give you a heads up and a chance to check it out of your library, try to swing a review copy, talk your librarian into buying it, or shell out 50 bucks for your own copy.
[As required by federal law I hereby inform you that mine is a gratis copy from OUP. Yet I consider it my academic responsibility to give honest reviews, even of books I receive for free.]
I ordered it immediately after I saw you hold it up on your video the other day. Looking forward to it even more now.