The Drama of Scripture

"we find ourselves in a world that, despite all the power of sin, is led to restoration and perfection.  Israel is the preparation, Christ the center, the church the consequence, and the parousia the crown --- that is the cord that binds the facts of revelation together." --Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics [Gereformeerde dogmatiek, 1896], Translated by John Vriend, edited by John Bolt (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2003),  p. 376.

This expansion of the "redemption" part of the common "creation-fall-redemption" theme of the Reformed worldview gives it the character of a six-act drama:  creation - fall - Israel - Jesus - church - consummation.  (At a Regent public lecture in May 2007, Marva Dawn further divided "church" into two acts, with the early church and us as acts five and six of a seven-act play.)  This six-act drama is explicated in Goheen & Bartholomew, The Drama of Scripture: Finding Our Place in the Story of the Bible (Baker, 2004); see Goheen's lecture "Reading the Bible as One Story" for a good overview, including a brief connection with Tom Wright's five-act drama.  Our task is to fill out the unfinished act of this drama by being familiar with the already revealed acts.

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