Aesthetic Theology—Blessing or Curse? An Assessment of Narrative Theology
Quite unawares of the origins of some of these thoughts, many pastors and church members may find themselves increasingly confronted with ideas like “story preaching” or “reading the Bible as literature.” Harmless as it may seem at first—after all, have “story preaching” and “reading the Bible as literature” not been practiced with good success and enjoyment for a long, long time?—these phrases in fact conceal trends of which the unsuspecting pastor, churchgoer, or Bible student may not be aware.
