I am only about 70 pages into, but as I catch his argument we tend to think of the narratives in the Bible as merely being proof-texts for our doctrines. Vanhoozer, Hays et al say that the doctrines in the Bible, on one level, actually build and point to the larger narrative.

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J. B. Atken
John Knox PCA
Layman, M.A. student at Louisiana College