A couple of days ago we asked "Are we to read the Bible as a story or as a systematic theology?" We concluded that the answer is "both/and." Since then I've come across another illuminating quote from Dr. Michael D. Williams' book Far As the Curse Is Found: The Covenant Story of Redemption:
Indeed, the Bible as a whole is best understood as a story or drama. To be sure, the Bible does more than tell a story. Scripture includes psalms and proverbs, songs and prayers, moral instruction and doctrinal reflection. But what holds all of it together, what makes it a unified revelation is the storyline, what theologians often call the drama of redemption. The nonnarrative pieces fit into and make sense only within their appropriate contexts in the biblical storyline…
