The True Story of the Whole World: Finding Your Place in the Biblical Drama, rev. ed.
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
This book provides an overview of the grand narrative of the Bible, showing how God’s action in the world gives meaning to our lives and provides us with a foundation for our actions. The authors’ bestselling textbook, The Drama of Scripture, presented this message for a student audience. It was then abridged and published at a more popular level as The True Story of the Whole World. This revised edition has been further updated and streamlined throughout for church readers and small groups. It includes contemporary reflection sections and discussion questions for individual or group use in each chapter.
- Provides an overview of the grand narrative of the Bible
- Revised edition has been updated and streamlined throughout for church readers and small groups
- Includes contemporary reflection sections and discussion questions for individual or group use
- Prologue: The Bible as a Grand Story
- Act 1: God Establishes His Kingdom: Creation
- Act 2: Rebellion in the Kingdom: Fall
- Act 3: The King Chooses Israel: Restoration Initiated
- Scene 1: A People for the King
- Scene 2: A Land for God’s People
- Interlude: A Kingdom Story Waiting for an Ending: The Intertestamental Period
- Act 4: The Coming of the King: Restoration Accomplished
- Act 5: Spreading the News of the King: The Mission of the Church
- Scene 1: From Jerusalem to Rome
- Scene 2: And into All the World
- Act 6: The Return of the King: Restoration Completed
Top Highlights
“Humankind is made to live in four relationships: (1) we are made for God; (2) we are made for one another in a variety of relationships; (3) we are made to cultivate and care for the nonhuman creation; and (4) we are made to experience harmony as each aspect of our lives is rightly ordered by God (see fig. 1). When all these relationships and each aspect of our lives is rightly ordered, we experience harmony within ourselves.” (Page 16)
“Sin is a quest for autonomy, a refusal to serve God that always has tragic consequences.” (Page 25)
“The creation stories of Genesis are argumentative.” (Page 10)
“This phrase clarifies the fundamental similarity between God and humanity: humankind’s unique vocation is to rule over the nonhuman creation under God as the supreme Ruler over all.” (Page 14)
“But sin cannot destroy the goodness of creation outright. Rather, sin twists and distorts it.” (Page 28)
What a shockingly bold title, The True Story of the Whole World, and it lives up to every word. This book masterfully synthesizes the biblical narrative without sacrificing important exegetical details. It prompts readers to sit back in awe of the history of redemption while also compelling them to get on with Jesus’s kingdom mission. Its predecessor, The Drama of Scripture, was required reading for all our church’s interns and residents. I am now thrilled to recommend this more accessible version to our whole church.
—Jonathan Dodson, lead pastor of City Life Church, Austin, Texas; author of Our Good Crisis: Overcoming Moral Chaos with the Beatitudes
I know of no book that is more important to our current and emerging times than The True Story of the Whole World. This book is accessible and tremendously impactful. In a world of competing ideologies and cultural division, Goheen and Bartholomew lay out the beauty and substance of the biblical story. These two teachers have immersed me and so many others in the world-altering story of Jesus Christ. Their book presents a breadth of biblical wisdom that helps us make sense of why the modern church is anemic in its calling to be the light of the world. I recommend The True Story of the Whole World to anyone who desires wisdom. Read and apply this book to your lives and ministries.
—Tyler Johnson, lead pastor, Redemption Church Arizona
- Title: The True Story of the Whole World: Finding Your Place in the Biblical Drama
- Authors: Michael Goheen, Craig G. Bartholomew
- Edition: Revised Edition
- Publisher: Brazos
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Pages: 176
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible › History of Biblical events
- ISBNs: 9781493427529, 9781587434761, 9781587435164, 1493427520, 1587434768, 1587435160
- Resource ID: LLS:TRSTRYWHLDRMRVD
- Resource Type: text.monograph.biblical-theology
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:31:09Z
