God as Author
Gene FantPaperback 2010-05-01
Positioned as an elective textbook, God as?Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative?is a literary approach to understanding?the Gospel. This book will help students?interpret the Gospels by examining how?narratives are written. A perfect selection?for scholars and seminary students, God as?Author also provides helpful observations?about interpreting narratives and?applications to teaching the Gospels.
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"God as Author" takes a thoughtful literary approach to understanding the Gospel. Gene Fant writes in the preface: ?"Most of us have heard that Christ is 'the Author and Finisher of our faith' (Hebrews 12:2), so it makes sense that the Gospel would be God's story. As many a church message board has noted so succinctly, 'History is His Story.' In our easy discussions of special revelation, I cannot help but wonder if we?have missed something awe-inspiring that may be revealed by a reversal of the lens that we turn toward narrative. Perhaps the Gospel is not just like a story; perhaps story, narrative in general, is like the Gospel. My clear conviction is that something stands behind the power of narrative. In fact, I believe that Someone stands behind it. There is an Author whose skill and grace imbues the broad range of the stories that we tell. There is a Father who gave us a story to help us understand our place in this world, a story that points back to Him. His story is, in
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Positioned as an elective textbook, God as?Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative?is a literary approach to understanding?the Gospel. This book will help students?interpret the Gospels by examining how?narratives are written. A perfect selection?for scholars and seminary students, God as?Author also provides helpful observations?about interpreting narratives and?applications to teaching the Gospels.
-Publisher.
Publisher Description
"God as Author" takes a thoughtful literary approach to understanding the Gospel. Gene Fant writes in the preface: ?"Most of us have heard that Christ is 'the Author and Finisher of our faith' (Hebrews 12:2), so it makes sense that the Gospel would be God's story. As many a church message board has noted so succinctly, 'History is His Story.' In our easy discussions of special revelation, I cannot help but wonder if we?have missed something awe-inspiring that may be revealed by a reversal of the lens that we turn toward narrative. Perhaps the Gospel is not just like a story; perhaps story, narrative in general, is like the Gospel. My clear conviction is that something stands behind the power of narrative. In fact, I believe that Someone stands behind it. There is an Author whose skill and grace imbues the broad range of the stories that we tell. There is a Father who gave us a story to help us understand our place in this world, a story that points back to Him. His story is, in