The purpose of the volume, according Harold Attridge, is to explore «the
ongoing controversy in the United States about the relationship between science and religion, particularly evolutionary biology and traditional readings of the
biblical creation
story.»
To bring some
biblical examples to Wright's point, Hebrews 11 and 2 Peter / Jude employ the strategy of fitting the readers and their circumstances into the
ongoing story — complete with a future ending.
McKnight describes it as «the
ongoing reworking of the
biblical Story by new authors so they can speak the old story in new ways for their day... The Bible contains an ongoing series of midrashes, or interpretive telling, of the one Story God wants us to know and hear... None of the wiki - stories is final; none of them is comprehensive; none of them is absolute; none of them is exhaustive.&r
Story by new authors so they can speak the old
story in new ways for their day... The Bible contains an ongoing series of midrashes, or interpretive telling, of the one Story God wants us to know and hear... None of the wiki - stories is final; none of them is comprehensive; none of them is absolute; none of them is exhaustive.&r
story in new ways for their day... The Bible contains an
ongoing series of midrashes, or interpretive telling, of the one
Story God wants us to know and hear... None of the wiki - stories is final; none of them is comprehensive; none of them is absolute; none of them is exhaustive.&r
Story God wants us to know and hear... None of the wiki -
stories is final; none of them is comprehensive; none of them is absolute; none of them is exhaustive.»
The works on view in Rachel Uffner's booth point slyly to her
ongoing fascination with mythologies of all kinds, without making any reference overly obvious — if you think the piece above refers only to the
Biblical Eve, you may need to look up the
story of a certain Aphrodite and a handsome man named Paris.